White Chocolate Macadamia Creme Brulee Recipes

WHITE CHOCOLATE CREME BRULEE W/ MACADAMIA NUTS

Steps:

• Melt chocolate in a double boiler.
• Preheat oven to 300 F.
• Remove from heat and whisk in 3 tbsp sugar, egg yolks, cream, vanilla, and liqueur.
• Toast macadamia nuts by spreading on a baking sheet and baking for 10-12 minutes, watching to make sure they do not burn.
• Split nuts between 6 ramekins.
• Pour chocolate mixture on top of nuts.
• Place ramekins in a baking dish and fill baking dish with water until it is halfway up the sides of the ramekins (DO NOT drip or splash any water into your ramekins).
• CAREFULLY place in the oven and bake 40-50 minutes, until set around the outside and loose in the center.
• Remove from oven and let cool to room temperature while still in the water bath.
• Remove ramekins from water bath and chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
• Just before serving, top with the remaining sugar in a thin layer (you don't have to use all the sugar) and caramelize with a creme brulee torch.
• Allow caramelized sugar to cool and harden (takes less than a minute).

WHITE CHOCOLATE CREME BRULEE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, whole egg and 1/4 cup sugar until smooth.
• Chop the white chocolate; set aside.
• Heat cream and half and half over medium heat just until it begins to bubble.
• Turn the heat to low and add chocolate, stirring until melted.
• Start to laddle chocolate cream into the eggs slowly, whisking well with each addition.
• When the mixture is incorporated, strain into clean bowl.
• Stir in vanilla and nutmeg.
• Ladle mixture into 12 (1/2 cup) ramekins.
• Place in large baking pan, add enough hot water to come halfway up the sides of the dishes.
• Cook 45 minutes.
• They will have a light gold top and be slightly wobbly in the center.
• Remove from pan, transfer to rack to cool.
• Cover loosely and refrigerate until chilled.
• Several hours before serving: start to caramelize the custards.
• Place oven rack on 2nd rack from the broiler.
• Sprinkle 1 1/2 tsp sugar on top of each ramekins, arrange on baking sheet.
• Place under broiler 5 to 6 minutes.
• Rotate 1/2 way through.
• Cool on racks and then refrigerate again until chilled.

MMM... WHITE CHOCOLATE CREME BRULEE

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 300 degrees F.
• Whisk egg yolks and 1/4 cup sugar in a medium bowl.
• Bring cream and the remaining 1/4 cup sugar to simmer in heavy medium saucepan; reduce heat to low.
• Gradually add chopped white chocolate to the cream mixture and whisk until smooth.
• Gradually whisk the hot white chocolate mixture into yolk mixture, then whisk in vanilla.
• Pour the mixture through a fine sieve, then ladle custard into four 10-oz custard cups (if you use 4 oz ramekins, it will fill about 7 of them).
• Place the filled cups in large baking pan and add enough hot water to pan to come halfway up sides of cups.
• Bake at 300 degrees F until the custards are set in the center, about 1 hour.
• Carefully remove the custards from water and let cool.
• Cover (plastic wrap works fine) and refrigerate.
• Just before serving, preheat the broiler.
• Sprinkle 1/2 tablespoon sugar over each custard.
• Broil until the sugar caramelizes, watching carefully, which will take about 2 minutes.
• Serve hot, or refrigerate up to 1 hour and serve cold.
• Makes 4 servings.