Coffee Flan, a homemade spoon dessert with espresso aroma, is an excellent end to a meal and is baked in a hot water bath in the oven.
The taste of coffee is one of the most used in pastry for delicious cakes, creams, and frostings, and this dessert is no exception for its goodness!
It has a rich and engaging aroma, and it’s important to use it in a balanced way so it doesn’t overpower the other ingredients.
How to use coffee in the kitchen?
We can use it in liquid form but also as a powder and beans if we use freeze-dried coffee, and the most delicate blend, especially if we are about to prepare a dessert, is the one with a predominance of Arabica variety.
The most famous preparation in pastry with coffee is undoubtedly
tiramisu
delicious layers of mascarpone cream with ladyfingers soaked in coffee!
And coffee in savory recipes??
Many chefs “DARE” to add coffee powder in the preparation of first or second courses, and in my tiny way, I have also experimented by making
Coffee Tagliatelle
unusual but really special!
COFFEE FLAN
ASI’s Kitchen
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 3 Hours
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 8
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- 13.3 oz Nestlé condensed milk
- 13.9 oz milk
- 5 eggs
- 4.1 oz espresso coffee
- 2 tablespoons rum
- 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons caramel topping
Tools
- Blender / Mixer
- Baking Pan
- Mold
- Teaspoon
- Spoon
- Moka Pot
- Kitchen Scale G3Ferrari G20062
INGREDIENTS MUST BE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE
For the coffee-flavored flan first of all … prepare the moka pot and set the espresso aside.
Then preheat the oven to 350°F and place a large baking pan with high edges filled with water for the water bath cooking of the coffee-flavored flan.
For the sweet flan mixture with coffee flavor put in a rather large bowl the eggs at room temperature, condensed milk, whole or skimmed milk of your choice, espresso coffee, rum, unsweetened cocoa powder, liquid vanilla extract,
With a hand whisk or with a mixer, blend all the ingredients, mixing the liquid, which must be fluid and without lumps.
Pour the caramel into the pudding mold and add the flan mixture.
Place the mold inside the pan with hot water for the water bath and let it cook for about 1 hour and 25 minutes.
When cooking is finished, turn off the oven and let the flan cool still in the water bath pan.
Then place the mold in the refrigerator for at least 2/3 hours, allowing the spoon dessert to set and cool perfectly.
After this time, the coffee flan is ready to be served and enjoyed at the table!
Bon appétit!
Annalisa
