Chocolate Chai Crème Brûlée
 
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • 2 ½ C half and half
  • 1 ¼ C heavy cream
  • 4 bags of chai black tea or 2 T loose tea
  • 16 cardamom pods - smashed
  • 6 large egg yolks
  • 2 T sugar
  • 5 oz chopped bittersweet chocolate - not chips
  • extra sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees
  2. Arrange 8 4oz ramekins in a baking dish. Set aside.
  3. Put the chopped chocolate into a medium heatproof bowl. Set aside.
  4. In a medium pot over medium heat combine the half and half, cream, smashed cardamom pods and seeds and the tea. Bring to simmer slowly and then remove from heat. Let the cream mixture infuse for 5 minutes.
  5. Strain cream mixture through a fine sieve to remove tea leaves and cardamom. Return the cream to the pot and bring to a simmer again.
  6. Meanwhile, whisk the 2 T of sugar and the egg yolks together.
  7. Slowly temper (pour) the hot cream into the eggs, whisking constantly.
  8. Strain the cream and egg mixture through a fine sieve onto the chopped chocolate.
  9. Whisk the chocolate and liquid custard together until the chocolate is completely melted and emulsified.
  10. Pour the custard into the ramekins and put the dish of ramekins into the oven. Pour room temperature water into the baking dish to cover the bottom half of the ramekins.
  11. Bake for approximately 50 minutes until the custards are set but still have a slight tremble in the middle.
  12. Remove from the oven and carefully remove the ramekins from the water bath. Cool the custards to room temperature and then cool completely in the refrigerator.
  13. To caramelize the custards, sprinkle the tops of the custards with sugar. On a heatproof surface, wave the lit torch over the chocolate keeping the flame 6 inches away from the sugar. Move the flame around the custard taking care not to over-burn any one spot. When all of the sugar is caramelized, move on to the next custard.
  14. Serve immediately.
Recipe by Tart of Gold at https://atartofgold.com/chocolate-chai-creme-brulee/