Creamy Caramel Flan

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 5 eggs
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 in a small, heavy saucepan over medium-low heat, cook sugar, stirring, until golden.
• 3 pour into a 10 inch round baking dish, tilting to coat bottom and sides. set aside.
• 4 in a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth.
• 5 beat in eggs, one at a time, until well incorporated.
• 6 beat in condensed and evaporated milk and vanilla until smooth.
• 7 pour into caramel coated pan.
• 8 line a roasting pan with a damp kitchen towel.
• 9 place baking dish on towel, inside roasting pan, and place roasting pan on oven rack.
• 10 fill roasting pan with boiling water to reach halfway up the sides of the baking dish.
• 11 bake in preheated oven 50 to 60 minutes, until center is just set.
• 12 cool one hour on wire rack, then chill in refrigerator 8 hours or overnight. to unmold, run a knife around edges of pan and invert on a rimmed serving platter.
• 13 hint: this came from one of the reviewers - pouring the sugar syrup into the glass baking dish, and because the glass was cool, the sugar hardened almost immediately. so after spending 30 minutes chipping a rock-hard blob of sugar out of the bottom of the dish, tried it again. but this time, put the baking dish in a hot oven for about 5 minutes before adding the sugar. the hot dish kept the sugar liquified just long enough for to get an even coating.