Best and easiest flan recipe I've ever seen.

[Puglover]

Tried this the other night and wow...just wow.

3/4-1cup sugar
1/4 water

1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
3 eggs
3 egg yolks
1 tbl. vanilla
1 can crema (it's in the mexican aisle at the grocers)

Mix sugar and water together and carmelize over med heat. Remove from heat and pour into a deep dish pie pan. Swirl pie pan around to coat with sugar and put aside. Blend remaining ingrediants and pour into pie pan. Bake at 350 oven for 30 min. in a water bath.
Cool and invert onto plate.

ps if you don't want the top (which will be the bottom) to brown cover with parchment.

[NMDemDist2]

1. blend? as in whip it up with my stand mixer?

this sounds like it would present beautifully too!

[Puglover]

2. I did it in my blender, which fluffed it up abit too much for

the pie pan. You certainly could use your stand mixer. It also would would work great in individual ramekins.

[SoCalDem]

3. My grandmother used to make hers in a Chase & Sanborn coffee can

...Best flan in the world... Todays coffee cans are tall, though, and I have never found a vessel the same size as the old squatty coffee cans..

She used them because she always HAD them around, and the little ridges made a nice design on the flan..

[troubleinwinter]

5. Look what's on eBay

I hadn't remembered coffee in this shape can til I saw these, now I remember the shape from my childhood.

[troubleinwinter]

4. Looks like a really great recipe.

I was curious about 'crema' & googled it. An entry says "or substitute creme fraiche or sour cream".