Caramelized Honey Brûlée Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°. Place 3/4 cup honey in a medium saucepan and scrape in vanilla seeds; save pod for another use. Cook over medium-high, swirling pan occasionally, until honey darkens and smells almost burnt (don't worry, this is what you're going for!) and bubbling begins to slow, 5-8 minutes. Gradually add cream, then milk, to caramelized honey, stirring constantly until combined.
• Whisk salt into egg yolks in a medium bowl, then stream in honey-caramel mixture, whisking constantly. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a large measuring cup. Divide among ramekins.
• Place ramekins in a large baking dish lined with a dish towel (it will keep them from sliding around) and pour in boiling water around ramekins so it comes halfway up sides.
• Bake until edges of custards are set but centers still jiggle slightly, 65-75 minutes. Remove ramekins from water bath and let custards cool, about 1 hour. Chill until firm, at least 2 hours.
• Just before serving, sprinkle custards evenly with sugar and heat with torch until sugar is melted and caramelized to a deep amber color. Your goal is to make a thin, smooth, brittle crust that shatters when broken.
• Do ahead: Custards can be made 5 days ahead. Cover and keep chilled.

Steps:

• Make the butterscotch, first.
• Put 1 cup sugar in saucepan, pour 1/4 cup water around sugar, put on stove, do not stir. Leave on stove, but watch, you will see the water boil away, leaving a clear thick substance. Let the substance(sugar), boil hard for 5 minutes. Then stir the sugar, till it turns a golden brown, and remove from heat.
• Stir in the cold milk, and whipping cream, vanilla extract and salt. The butterscotch will instantly harden.
• Put back on heat and reheat until the butterscotch softens and whisk till it incorporates with the milk.
• Let cool slightly.
• Start up your mixer, with the whisk attachment on medium speed. Slowly, pour in the milk mixture into the eggs, so they don't curdle. Do this until all the milk is in the eggs. Then put on a higher speed for 2 minutes.
• Strain, pudding through a strainer, into a clean bowl.
• Pour into 5-4 ounce timbals, 3/4 of the way up the bowl.
• Place the pudding cups in a tray, with sides, as you will be pouring water in around the bowls, about 1/2 way up the bowls.
• Bake in oven, preheated to 325F, for 30 minutes.
• Pudding should be set at sides, but jiggly in centre.
• Remove from bath, cool slightly, then put in fridge, to set.
• Just before serving, remove pudding from fridge.
• Spread 1 tbsp per pudding, evenly on top of pudding.
• Use baking torch, and caramelize topping.
• Serve.