DEAR DOROTHY: My recipe for flan calls for a caramel sauce made with 1 cup white sugar and 6 tablespoons water. But when I try to slip the chilled flan onto a serving dish there is always a hard sugar ...

In a saucepan, combine the sugar and water. Heat over medium heat until the mixture turns a golden brown caramel. Remove from ...

(NYTimes) - Before opening their restaurant Cúrate in Asheville, North Carolina, the American chef Katie Button and her husband, the Spanish chef Félix Meana, cooked and ate all over Spain, especially ...

Except perhaps for a soft-boiled egg freshly plucked from the nest, there’s no softer, silkier or sensual way to experience an egg than in a custard. Swirled into a smooth confection of cream and ...

Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and preheat to 325 degrees. Place a double layer of paper towels in the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch pan, then arrange six (6-ounce) ramekins or other glass ...

Custards are some of the most decadent and rich desserts, and two of the most popular are flan and panna cotta. At first glance, these dishes look very similar, but they are easy to tell apart when ...

Photographer Romulo Yanes lets the requisite caramel sauce in this vanilla-flecked flan go a shade darker for a faint bitter edge that cuts through the dense, sweet custard. For a distinctly Cuban ...

Tawny golden pumpkins are starting to appear on doorsteps, and kitchens are beginning to smell like that favorite fall treat, pumpkin pie. The wonderful flavor of pumpkin also works well in flan, a ...