Salted Caramel Pots de Crème

Could there be anything better? These Salted Caramel Pots de Creme are evereeeeything!! I’m mean I expected these to be good because they are made of all the good stuff, but they even exceeded my expectations! They were so dreamy and then some! Could I add any more exclamation points??!! I really, really love these. If you like salted caramel you will love these too. I mean really what’s not to love here?

I made these twice because I found out the hard way the first time that as some recipes may suggest to whip the egg yolks until they are light and fluffy (which I did, by hand for several minutes until it was that lovely creamy, pale consistency) you will find in the end you get all these air bubbles, all this foam that just floats up to the tops of the pots and gives them this strange, not-so-appealing appearance once they’re baked. I also preferred the texture of them without whipped up egg yolks anyway. So, with that said just mix your eggs to blend them – no need to get crazy and whisk like mad there. Another key here is not to burn your caramel, of course. But also don’t under-do it or you won’t get that rich caramel flavor. Caramel can be tricky but once you figure out that prime moment where the caramel has just turned that deep rich, rosiesh orange without being too dark – boom! All life’s problems are gone. Do be sure to have ingredients ready with this because you need to work quickly once the color reaches that stage.

One thing I did with these to speed the chilling process up was to chill them in an ice bath in a 13×9-inch pan (with lots of ice). I needed them chilled in 2 hours instead of 4, it worked great but after they sat at room temp for a few minutes once I took them out they did get a little bit of that sweat, which you’ll see. Food blogger probs, chasing daylight :). All these little details make them seem more complicated then they really are. The caramel is the only tricky part here, other than that you’ll breeze right through these. They’ll just take some patience in waiting for them to bake and cool and chill. Indeed these are one of those things that is definitely worth every single calorie. I will dream about these things for weeks and weeks until I make them again. Read More »