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Ingredients
| light whipping cream (fluid): 2 cups |
| canned coconut milk: 1 cup |
| canned sweetened coconut cream: 1 cup |
| whole vanilla beans: 1 (halved lengthwise) |
| granulated sugar: 1 cup |
| eggs: 10 (yolks) |
| coconuts: 4 |
Coco Loco Brulee
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User rating:
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Prep Time
0 min -
Cook Time
30 min -
Servings
8 serving(s)
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- Heat oven to 325*F.
- Place 13x9 in. glass baking dish in shallow roasting pan.
- In large heavy sauce pan, combine cream, coconut milk, cream of coconut, and vanilla bean.
- Bring to a boil over medium heat; remove from heat Meanwhile, whisk 1/2 c.of sugar and egg yolks in large bowl until smooth.
- Slowly whisk in hot cream mixture.
- Strain through fine sieve into baking dish.
- Pour 1/2 in.hot water into roasting pan to create a water bath.
- Place roasting pan with baking dish into oven.
- Bake 25 to 35 minutes or until just barely set but still quivery.
- Do not overbake.
- Remove from water bath. Cool to room temperature.
- Refrigerate until cold.
- Meanwhile crack coconuts in half with hammer.Work over a towel.
- To break a coconut into equal halves tap the shell with the claw side of a hammer along an imaginary line going around the middle.
- After 10- 20 taps the shell should break in two.
- Reserve coconut water (milk) if desired.
- Just before serving, spoon custard into coconut halves.
- Smooth top of mixture with top of spoon.
- Sprinkle 1 tbs of remaining sugar in thin layer over filling in each coconut.
- With blowtorch, caramelize sugar.
- Serve in shallow bowls.