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    Home • Recipes • Types of Recipe

    Caramel and Custards

    Collection of best caramel recipes and custards, - from French classic recipes with caramel such as salted caramel sauce, sticky caramel and toffee desserts such as the tarte tatin, crème caramel (caramel pudding) - to sweet and savoury clafoutis.

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    • slice of cherry clafoutis - an easy recipe made with whole cherries
      Cherry Clafoutis - the Traditional French Custard Dessert
    • round pie dish with baked strawberries and almonds in a custard
      Strawberry Clafoutis with Almond Flour
    • blueberry clafoutis dessert with lemon and yellow edible pansies
      Blueberry Clafoutis with Lemon
    • plate with eiffel tower and circle of caramel sauce around a shiny creme caramel
      French Crème Caramel (flan aux oeufs au caramel)
    • vanilla egg tarts known as Pasteis de Nata from Portugal, scorched tops dusted with cinnamon
      Easy Portuguese Custard Tarts Recipe (Pastéis de Nata) & The Best in Paris
    • large pot with a baked rice pudding covered in a thick caramel skin, spooning out a creamy mixture underneath with cinnamon and a traditional French Fallue brioche
      Baked Rice Pudding Recipe (French Teurgoule)
    • close up of salted caramel macarons with a thick filling
      Salted Caramel Macarons
    • cracking in to a milk chocolate crème brûlée showing a delicious set custard topped with a thin caramelised crust - served with halved passionfruits
      Milk Chocolate Crème Brûlée Recipe
    • upside down caramelised apple tart glistening on a glass plate
      Tarte Tatin Recipe
    • glass with a layered gingerbread trifle with caramelised apples, jelly, caramel and topped with boozy whipped cream
      Gingerbread Trifle with Apple (Individual Trifles)
    • lush pudding in a pool of dark toffee sauce
      Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe with Apple
    • small individual asparagus clafoutis with parmesan sauce basil top
      Asparagus Clafoutis - When a French Custard Goes Savoury
    • slice of chocolate plate with eiffel tower served with a thin custard sauce
      Crème Anglaise with Chai Tea (Thin French Custard)
    • golden, shiny roasted caramelised pineapple slices on a plate with vanilla
      Roasted Pineapple with Sticky Vanilla
    • caramel pineapple rice pudding
      Caramelised Pineapple Rice Pudding (Riz Condé)
    • asparagus lemon clafoutis slice
      White Asparagus Recipe: French Clafoutis with Lemon
    • Pouring caramel
      Salted Caramel Sauce (Caramel au beurre salé)
    • gratin dish of berries in a creme brulee cream
      Berry Gratin - A Light Crème Brûlée
    • choux buns filled with nougat ice cream and dribbling caramel candle cosy atmosphere
      Choux Buns with Orange Caramel
    • stirring up nuts and caramel
      Caramelised Roasted Nuts (Nougatine)
    • drop of caramel on an orange cake
      Sticky Orange Caramel Cake with Chestnut

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