Perfect Homemade Red Wine Chocolate Creme Brulee
This is the ultimate foolproof flavored creme brulee recipe!
Servings: 4 creme brulees
Calories: 746kcal
Equipment
- Saucepan
- 4 ramekins
- 9x13 baking pan
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 cup bittersweet or dark chocolate chips
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt Diamond Crystal
- 5 egg yolks
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup red wine
- sugar for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 F.
- Combine cream and salt over low heat until just hot.
- Remove from heat. Add in chocolate and stir until melted and smooth.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine the egg yolks and sugar until light.
- Stir about a quarter of the cream mixture into the egg mixture, then pour the egg mixture into the cream mixture.
- Stir in wine till fully incorporated.
- Pour into four ramekins and place ramekins in a baking dish.
- Fill the baking dish with boiling water to about half way up the side of the ramekins.
- Bake for 40 minutes, or until centers are barely set.
- Remove from oven and remove ramekins from water bath. Let cool for 15 minutes, then refrigerate for several hours.
- Once set, sprinkle the tops of the custard with sugar and torch (or broil in the oven) until the sugar is browned.
- Crack and enjoy!
Notes
Before you put the egg yolks into a hot mixture, you always heat them up slowly, by first putting a little bit of the hot mixture into the egg yolks. This is really imporatnt to avoid the eggs cooking too fast and giving you a scrambled egg texture!
Nutrition
Calories: 746kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 53g | Saturated Fat: 36g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 367mg | Sodium: 240mg | Potassium: 415mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 41g | Vitamin A: 1642IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 226mg | Iron: 1mg