Puerto Rican Egg Custard Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Place eggs in blender and whip for 15 seconds; add sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and whole milk to blender , whip for 30 seconds. Set aside.
• 2. Place sugar in dry saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat. After 5 minutes sugar begins to clump up. Break up chunks with a wooden spoon. Continue to cook sugar until it liquefies and turns light caramel color.NOT to dark or you will have a burnt flavor.
• 3. Pour caramel into sprayed lightly bundt pan and using a wooden spoon, spread caramel 1/2 way up sides and middle tube of pan too. Place in a roasting pan.
• 4. Pour custard into bundt pan.
• 5. Place roaster and bundt pan in oven; then pour hot water into roasting pan, about 2 inches deep. Bake for 45 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• 6. Remove from oven, let cool in bundt pan for 15 minutes- then loosen the top edge of flan from pan so as not to disturb the caramel that is 1/2 way down.
• 7. Tilt pan back and forth until you can see the caramel oozing up the sides of the pan. Cover and chill for 6 hours or over night.
• 8. Place plater on top of bundt pan. Holding tight against each other;flip over carefully so you don't lose the wonderful caramel. Store any left over flan in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Whisk together the cornstarch, salt, sugar, and cinnamon in a large saucepan. Stir in the milk to evenly blend ingredients, and set over medium-high heat. Continue whisking and cooking until custard reaches a thick consistency, 25 to 30 minutes. It is important to stir the entire time, or the custard can easily burn or clump. The custard will continue to thicken as it cools. Spoon into bowls to serve.

Steps:

• On a lightly floured surface, roll puff pastry into an 18-inch/46-centimeter square. Starting with the edge closest to you, tightly roll the dough into a log. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until very firm, at least 30 minutes and preferably overnight.
• Heat the oven to 500 degrees and arrange the oven racks in the top third and lower third of the oven. Place 2 cookie sheets on the oven racks while the oven heats.
• In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, cinnamon stick and 2/3 cup/165 milliliters water. Bring to a boil and cook 1 minute. Turn off heat and let stand until you're ready to use it.
• Roll the firm log of pastry on a lightly floured surface until 1 inch/2 1/2 centimeters in diameter. Trim the ends, then cut the log into 1/2-inch/12-millimeter slices. (You should have 48.)
• Using a rolling pin, roll one of the pastry rounds into a 2 1/2-inch/63-millimeter circle. Place pastry into the cavity of a mini-muffin tin, and press to evenly flatten the dough against the bottom and sides of the cavity, extending about 1/16 inch/3 millimeters above the rim of the pan. The dough should be about 1/16 inch/3 millimeters thick, with the bottom a bit thicker than the sides. Repeat with the remaining dough, chilling the cut rounds if dough becomes difficult to roll. Refrigerate crusts until firm, at least 10 minutes.
• While the dough chills, finish the filling: In a small saucepan, heat 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon/255 milliliters milk over medium-low heat until bubbles begin to form around the edges.
• In a large bowl, whisk flour with the remaining 5 tablespoons/75 milliliters milk. Continue whisking while adding the hot milk in a slow, steady stream. Discard the cinnamon stick from the sugar syrup and whisk the syrup into the milk mixture in a steady stream. Return to the saucepan and cook over medium-low heat, whisking constantly, until thickened, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Place the yolks in a large bowl. Whisking constantly, add hot milk mixture to eggs in a slow stream until fully incorporated. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Pour warm filling into pastry shells until they're three-quarters full.
• Transfer tarts to the cookie sheets in oven and bake until the shells are golden brown and crisp, and the custards are golden brown and darkened in spots, 15 to 19 minutes.
• Let cool in the pans on a wire rack for 5 minutes, then pop out tarts to continue cooling on the racks for another 5 minutes. Sprinkle with cinnamon and serve warm.