Recipe of Favorite Caramel Pumpkin Flan

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Gently pour the pumpkin mixture into the pan with the caramel so they don't combine. Run a small knife around the edge of the flan. This amazing dessert is creamy and melts in your mouth. It has a soft sweetness and an amazing fall aroma from the cinnamon and nutmeg.

Caramel Pumpkin Flan is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Caramel Pumpkin Flan is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook caramel pumpkin flan using 19 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Caramel Pumpkin Flan:

1. Make ready Pumkin Flan
2. Make ready 4 each eggs (extra large)
3. Prepare 4 each egg yolks (from extra large eggs)
4. Get 1 cup sugar (brown, packed)
5. Take 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
6. Get 1 cup milk (whole)
7. Prepare 1 cup cream
8. Take 1 cup pumkin puree (flesh from 1/2 small pumpkin)
9. Take 1/2 tsp cinnamon
10. Get 1/8 tsp nutmeg
11. Make ready 1/8 tsp allspice
12. Make ready 1/8 tsp ground clove
13. Get 1/8 tsp orange zest
14. Get 1 pinch salt
15. Prepare Caramel
16. Prepare 1/2 cup water
17. Take 1 cup sugar
18. Make ready 3 each drops of lemon juice (light squeeze from half a lemon)
19. Get 3 tbsp pepitas (roasted salted hulled pumpkin seeds)

This is amazingly easy, light and sweet. I found the recipe on the label of Carnation Fat Free Evaporated Milk. If pumpkin pie married caramel custard, their offspring would look like this pumpkin flan. Crème caramel with pumpkin overtones is an outstanding dessert for serving after a heavy meal.

Steps to make Caramel Pumpkin Flan:

1. Combine cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and orange zest with pumpkin puree.
2. In a sauce pan, start to heat the milk and cream, but do not bring to a boil.
3. Whisk together the eggs and egg yolks in a large bowl. Once the milk is warm, remove from heat slowly add to egg mixture, whisking continuously.
4. Once incorporated, add the brown sugar, pinch of salt and vanilla and whisk until dissolved.
5. Pour through a mesh strainer into another container that can hold the pumpkin puree as well and be refrigerated.
6. Whisk to combine the spiced pumpkin puree with the egg mixture and chill at least 3 hours.
7. Add 1 cup sugar and then 1/4 cup water to a sauce pan. Heat until the sugar dissolves then add lemon juice.
8. Continue to heat, swirling the pan to cook evenly without stirring.
9. Once mixture is a deep amber color, remove from heat and slowly add the remaining 1/4 cup water. The caramel mixture will bubble up. Using a heatproof spoon, stir to combine.
10. Pour the caramel into the ramekins, allow to cool and chill until caramel has set.
11. Divide the chilled custard into the ramekins and place in large roasting pan with at least 2" sides.
12. Pour enough warm water into the pan to reach halfway up the ramekins and cover tightly with aluminum foil.
13. Bake at 325°F for 30 to 35 minutes or until the edges are clearly set, but center slightly liquid.
14. Remove from roasting pan and allow to cool on wire racks.
15. Once cooled, cover and return to refrigerator to chill.
16. When ready to serve, invert onto serving plate, drizzle any extra caramel over the flan and sprinkle with pepitas.

If pumpkin pie married caramel custard, their offspring would look like this pumpkin flan. Crème caramel with pumpkin overtones is an outstanding dessert for serving after a heavy meal. This pumpkin flan (flan de calabaza) has cream cheese so it's the perfect mix of cheesecake meets pumpkin pie, custard and caramel syrup! This flan is incredibly creamy and just sweet enough. The spicing is light enough that the pumpkin really shines through.

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