I received a box of Puro coffee to review, and I’m so delighted! I decided I must have a dessert to go with the coffee, so I made Slow Cooker Caramel Flan!
Puro Coffee sent these 3 coffees for me to review:
Puro Fuerte – Fragrant Dark Roast with a touch of spice and full body. When I usually think of dark roast, I think bitter, not this dark roast! Nice and strong, but not bitter.
Puro Bio-Organic – Medium Roast, combining soft notes of sweet chocolate, with tangy citrus. This was my favorite, a little sweet, and I could taste the citrus.
Puro Noble – Rich and lively Medium Roast with hints of fruit and hazelnut. This was my husband’s favorite, really smooth, great black or with cream and sugar.
I drink my coffee black, and every blend I tried was fantastic! I started drinking my coffee black a few years ago for health reasons, and I couldn’t bare to drink those chemical low-fat creamers another day!
Here is the link to order: Order Puro Coffee
Now for the Slow Cooker Carmel Flan. This Flan turned out outstanding! I usually eat a dessert only once after making it, and my husband will eat the rest, but I somehow ate 4 out of the 5 flans this recipes makes! It was really that good. If you have made flan before, and made the caramel sauce from scratch, I think you’ll pleased how easy this recipe is. I used a jarred Smucker’s Caramel Sauce, and it tasted really good, didn’t taste jarred in this recipe at all!
I bought the 6 ounce ramekins from World Market, I only filled them up to the inner lip, so the flan would come out easier. 5 ramekins worked just right for this recipe.
- 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 14 ounces 2% or whole milk (measured in above can)
- 3 eggs
- Caramel Sauce- 5 tablespoons (about half of 12.25 ounce jar of Smucker's Caramel Topping)
- Ramekins- I used (5) six ounce ramekins from World Market, I only filled them up to the inner lip of the ramekin.
- Whipped Cream for serving
- In a medium bowl, mix the sweetened condensed milk, the regular milk, and eggs with a whisk until smooth. Keep whisking until you can not feel the heaviness of the sweetened condensed milk on the bottom of the bowl.
- Add a tablespoon of the Caramel Sauce to each ramekin, swirl around with a back of a spoon, to coat all sides.
- Add the milk mixture to the ramekins, I only filled them up to the inner lip, so it would be easier to remove later.
- Add about a half inch of water to the slow cooker.
- Add the ramekins, I had to stack the fifth ramekin on top, and it worked just fine.
- Cover, and cook on HIGH for 2 hours, this is when I check on the flans. The flans are ready when they begin to puff slightly. Mine puffed at 2 hours 15 minutes.
- Remove the flans carefully with a pot holder . Put the flans of a wire rack to cool in the fridge for 3 or more hours.
- After the flans cool completely, take a knife and swirl around the edge of the ramekin, and flip over on a little plate.
- Serve with a squirt of whipped cream. The spray can of whipped cream is actually really good on these, this is what restaurants do.
Rebecca says
March 16, 2014 at 3:33 pmThis looks so delicious and relatively easy and straight forward to make! I can’t wait to try this!
Sandra - The Foodie Affair says
March 16, 2014 at 4:35 pmReally love how you used the ramekins! Perfect size for an individual touch 😉 I can’t live without dark rich coffee. What a great combination!
Joanne T Ferguson says
March 16, 2014 at 11:57 pmG’day! This looks delicious is now on my list to do! Thank you!
Cheers! Joanne
Michelle @ Esculent Dreams says
March 17, 2014 at 4:43 amyum!! what a creative way to make flan and a fabulous pairing 🙂
Cindy @ Hun... What's for Dinner? says
March 18, 2014 at 7:26 amFlan in the slow cooker? Cool!! Thanks for sharing at Simple Supper Tuesday.
Jennifer Johnson says
March 19, 2014 at 9:27 amYum! I want this tonight!
Sheena @ Hot Eats and Cool Reads says
March 19, 2014 at 12:43 pmThe coffee sounds fantastic and oh my does that flan look fantastic!! I really need to try making it in my slow cooker!
Jodie says
March 19, 2014 at 3:45 pmMy husband loves me to try anything like this. It looks so good!
Anyonita says
March 19, 2014 at 5:55 pmI”m not really as flan fan, it’s the texture I don’t like, but i LOVE the idea of making it in the slow cooker! Great recipe!
Mary Ellen says
March 19, 2014 at 7:34 pmI love this recipe and would never of thought of using the slow cooker. Amazing!
Sandra says
March 19, 2014 at 7:39 pmThis looks oh, so good! Can’t wait to try it.
Serena | Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch says
March 19, 2014 at 7:51 pmMmm..Love that this is made in the Crock Pot! Love Flan!
becky (the cookie rookie) says
March 19, 2014 at 8:24 pmwhat a pretty recipe! I’ve never made flan, can’t wait to try!
Joy @ Yesterfood says
March 20, 2014 at 6:54 amSarah, I’ve never tried to make flan, but have always wanted to. Now you tell me I can make it in the slow cooker? Genius! Love this. Thank you so much for sharing at Treasure Box Tuesday. PINNED twice- Treasure Box Tuesday AND Yesterfood. 🙂
Diane Roark says
March 23, 2014 at 1:08 pmLOVE LOVE this Flan. I pinned it. Thanks for stopping by and linking up to Saturday Dishes Blog Hop.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
recipesforourdailybread com
Miz Helen says
March 24, 2014 at 8:57 amI just love Flan and what a great idea for a slow cooker dessert! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday and have a great week!
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Ronda says
March 24, 2014 at 5:53 pmThis looks delicious! thank you for drooping it by Friday for our Weekend Social and Blog Hop at KitchenDreaming.com. I hope to see you again next week.
Kerry C says
March 25, 2014 at 6:09 amFlan is another one of those foods that looks hard to make. Yours look beautiful and your recipe makes it seem easy to make. I’m going to have to put this on my calendar of recipes to try. Thanks for sharing at Saturday Dishes.
Tamara says
April 8, 2014 at 2:18 amLovely, just made this (used Puro organic of course ;)and it’s awesome. Thanks for the recipe
Nicole Morton says
June 21, 2015 at 7:05 pmI don’t have any ramekins. I’m new to a lot of baking. I have recently had to do gluten free and I’m having to open a whole knew world of ideas. It has not been easy. Do you recommend just using just the crockpot or no? Have you tried that or should I venture to get ramekins? We love flan and I really want to try this. It’s so easy. Thank you for posting this recipe. 🙂
Sarah Olson says
June 21, 2015 at 8:00 pmI haven’t tried this without ramekins yet. It’s on my long list of things to try. Sorry I’m no help. I did try searching for other crock pot recipes that don’t use ramekins and couldn’t find it, I know someone had to try this on the internet somewhere!
Sharon says
October 3, 2015 at 8:54 amI have used the small, wide-mouth canning jars in place of ramekins
Karen Levin says
November 23, 2015 at 5:08 pmI was very excited to see this recipe using the slow cooker because the recipe I usually make is from my Cuban friend & made in a pressure cooker. Ever since I burned my arm using a pressure cooker, I hate using it! So I’m making yourvrecipe now. I have a standard crockpot. I’m using the ramekins you suggested. I could only get 2 ramekins on the bottom & 3 on top. The 3 on top, are tilting a bit. What size crockpot are you using? Mine is the standard family size purchased at Walmart.
Sarah Olson says
November 23, 2015 at 5:13 pmIt’s a 6-quart. They all do vary in size though!
Karen Levin says
November 23, 2015 at 7:11 pmOk mine is a 7 quart. I got the ramekins at World Market. 6 oz of liquid goes to that line below the lip. Hmmmmmm wonder why mine don’t fit? There is a smaller size at World Market that are 3 oz. Are you talking about the 3 oz ramekins for this recipe rather than the 6 oz?
Sarah Olson says
November 24, 2015 at 9:33 amHi Karen, I went measured water in mine. 6-ounces of water goes all the way to the top on mine. I wonder if we have different ramekins?
Karen Levin says
November 24, 2015 at 9:06 pmOk, that makes sense…..yours are the 3oz size! Thx Sarah for solving my question 🙂