Recipe - Flan De Queso De Puerto Rico (English Translation)

4 Large Egg
1 cn (14 Oz) Condensed Milk;
Sweetened
1 cn (12 Oz.) Evaporated Milk
6 ounce Cream Cheese
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

(1) Mix eggs, milk, and vanilla together.

(2) Soften the cream cheese and mix it together with the other ingredients.
Be careful not to overmix the cream cheese or it will cause air pockets in
the flan.

(3) Prepare a caramel by cooking One half cup of sugar over a low flame until
the sugar liquifies. Use a metal container to do this.

(4) Turn just enough caramel into the pan/ ramekin to cover the bottom.

(5) once the sugar is hard , pour the batter you prepared in steps 1 & 2
into the pan/ ramekin.

(6) place pan/ ramekin into a bainmarie. The pan/ ramekin in which the
ingredients are in should be Three fourths submerged in water.

(7) Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for about One half hour. The flan is done
when a knife/ toothpick inserted into it comes out clean.

Suggested Wine: Sangria

Serving Ideas : Serve slices inverted so the caramel is on top

NOTES : This is an excellent cheesecake like dessert.

Recipe by: Angelica Torres

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by MJFreeCDM MJFreeCDM@aol.com on Mar 10, 1998