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crème brûlée
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custard dessert with hard caramel top
Key facts
- Alternative names
- Burned cream, Burnt cream, Trinity cream, Cambridge burnt cream
- Course
- Dessert
- Place of origin
- France , Catalonia , or England
- Serving temperature
- Room temperature
- Main ingredients
- Cream , sugar , egg or egg yolks , vanilla
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Breaking French crème brûlée's hard top layer by spoon Crème brûlée (/ˌkrɛm bruːˈleɪ/; French: [kʁɛm bʁy.le]), also known as burnt cream, Cambridge burnt cream, or Trinity cream, and virtually identical to crema catalana, is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar. It is normally served slightly chilled; the heat from the caramelizing process tends to warm the top of the custard, while leaving the center cool. The custard base is generally flavored with vanilla in French cuisine, but can have other flavorings. It is sometimes garnished with fruit.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “crème brûlée” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.