Serves a Crowd
Pumpkin Pie Creme Brulee
- Serves 10
What You'll Need
Ingredients
- Crust
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32
vanilla wafers
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1/2
cup pecans
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5 tablespoons
melted, unsalted butter
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3 tablespoons
brown sugar
- Custard
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3 1/2 cups
heavy cream
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2 teaspoons
cinnamon
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2 teaspoons
nutmeg
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1
vanilla bean
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8
egg yolks
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1 1/2
cups granulated sugar
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1/2
cup whole milk
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2 cups
canned pumpkin puree
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turbinado sugar, for sprinkling
Directions
- Preheat oven to 300 Degrees F. Make crust: In food processor fitted with metal blade, pulse waffers and pecans until finely ground. Add butter and brown sugar and pulse to combine. Press mixture into bottoms and 1/2 inch up sides of ten 6-ounce ramekins. Put ramekins in a baking dish and bake 10 minutes. Remove and set aside to cool.
- Make custard: Combine 2 cups cream, cinnamon and nutmeg in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Halve vanilla bean lengthwise; scrape seeds out, add seeds and pod to saucepan. Bring to boil and remove from heat. Whisk egg yolks with granulated sugar in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Add remaining 1 1/2 cups cream and milk to saucepan. Slowly whisk in yolk mixture, then strain custard through a sieve back into bowl. Whisk in pumpkin puree.
- Divide pumpkin mixture among ramekins. Pour hot water into baking dish, halfway up sides of ramekins. Bake until custard is starting to set, 55 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from oven; remove ramekins from water bath and let cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate atleast 6 hours.
- Lightly sprinkle custard with turbinado sugar. Heat sugar with a butane torch until carmelized. Let cool.
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