Mexican Flan

Mexican style fan, topped with Dulce de Leche and spiked up with cinnamon…

I do have a sweet tooth, but I can tell you one thing – once I started cooking, I really cannot eat Nutella, condensed milk or the likes directly into my mouth. I somehow feel that they are better when included in cooking. Seriously!!! These were things I could keep licking my spoon and dipping it over and over again, but now I have got over the urge to do so. Therefore, last time, when I baked a cake for our schoolmates get-together (will post sometime later  – and done!), I had this remaining dulce de leche, called DDL with love, lying in the fridge and was really wondering what to do with it. Seriously, if it was not for blogosphere, I would have never know what DDL is!!!

Updated with new picture on January 8, 2022: This is among the intial posts on the blog, that I personally love but never got a chance to update with better pictures, just because this thing called Dulce De Leche is very addictive. Making a can of it guarantees adding a lot of unnecessary calories onto my already budgeoning weight. Hehe… It has been some time since I have repeated this dish and clicked it, but then with the way 2021 has been hectic, I just took my sweet time to update this post.

I haven’t done any changes to the recipe, except for baking it and resting it longer time that I did in the old picture that you can see below. I was clearly impatient. 😉 Just like any flan, you just need to be patient with this one too, to get that picture perfect flan. I clearly love the cinnamon flavor in this one, so if you do love cinnamon, then this one is for you…

As usual, keeping my old picture on the post… 😀

Mexican Flan

Course Dessert

Cuisine Mexican

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 4 hours hours

Total Time 2 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Author Rafeeda

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp dulce de leche store bought or homemade
• 1/2 can 14oz evaporated milk
• 1/2 can 12 oz condensed milk
• 2 large eggs room temperature
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon powder
• Sugar if required (refer notes)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 160 degree C.
• In a bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk till it becomes slightly pale.
• Add the evaporated-condensed milks and cinnamon powder and mix thoroughly.
• Check for sweetness and add sugar if necessary. Since the topping is DDL, I didn't add any sugar at all.
• Wash and dry 4 ramekins. Coat the bottom of each ramekin lavishly with the DDL till everything you have is finished.
• Pour the beaten mixture equally into the ramekins. Cover with aluminium foil and poke a hole on top.
• Take a large oven-proof pan, fill with 1 inch warm water and place the ramekins into it.
• Push the tray into your oven and bake for 50-60 miinutes till done. It will be done when you poke a cake tester/ toothpick and it comes out clean.
• Once done, take out the ramekins, allow to cool to room temperature and refrigerate for a few hours until well set.
• For serving, run a knife on the edges of the ramekins and slowly dump onto your plate. Gobble it down!!!

Notes

I didn't use any additioinal sugar since the DDL and condensed milk would add up for the sweetness.

You can double the quantity to make 8 small portion or 6 meduim sized portions.