Crème Brûlée

After the week we had...

Getting back to my blog, doing a bit of shopping at Sur La Table, and creating

my very first Crème brûlée with their help, was just the antidote I needed!

Thanks to Monica, who told me about Sur La Table's discount

card available to Food Bloggers, I now have one of my own!

Which I promptly exercised to purchase my Crème Brûlée supplies!

You know how much I love it when Cooking leads to

shopping! Any way... Patrick, the super-helpful sales pro at SLT

recommended this Chef's Torch to me. He's the same man who turned

me on to those Fabulous mini-cupcakes I can't stop making... So when

he said it's the same torch he uses in his own Kitchen, I was sold!

And, it's German. Did I mention I was sold? Patrick also

helped me find the Demerara sugar and butane I needed too

I picked up several (maybe 15) boxes of Crème Brûlée at

the Fort Benning commissary the last time we saw the Ranger

Crème Brûlée is our favorite restaurant desert, and I've always wanted

to make it as well as they do at Ruth's Chris. They do CB the Best there!

I was raised on Dr. Oetker baking products

used in my Mom's and my Oma's kitchens

So I trust them. You may remember this Black Forest

cake (Here) I made. It was a Dr. Oetker too!

This was pretty easy! 1 cup cold whole milk, 1 cup Whipping

Cream added to one box of Dr. Oetker Crème Brûlée custard mix

If you don't already have little dishes like these, Sur La Table also

offers a pretty nifty Torch Set, which includes the perfect dishes!

And the price of that set, with dishes and butane

torch is the same as my Chef's Torch. Hum...

So you have a Choice, which is always nice! Okay... our Crème Brûlée

is ready to go. Now this is where I wandered off the reservation a

bit in terms of the Recipe directions. It just didn't sound right

to leave my Crème Brûlée sit out on the counter for an hour

until a skin formed so I decided to chill it for two hours

instead. Also, the directions indicate No torch is needed

since caramelization can be achieved under the broiler...

But that sounds like No fun at all!

I would much rather Do this!

By the way... Buy the butane refill with this torch. Patrick thought

it might come ready to go, but I quickly Determined there was

no butane already in the torch. Quickly, as in I fiddled with

it until I realized filling my torch with Fuel might actually help!

The Dr. Oetker mix includes Demerara sugar but since I plan to

test lots of Crème Brûlée recipes, I picked up a sack at SLT too

Since I've never used a Torch before I made up

this little dish of Crème Brûlée to test it first

I'm glad I did because I ended up being a little heavy-handed

with the Flame. This tasted really good, but it tasted more

like over-toasted marshmallow than Crème Brûlée

But if you're after over-toasted Marshmallow, this is it!

It's Soooo good!

But this is more what we're after here...

Perfect Crème Brûlée achieved through help from

Dr. Oetker and our friends at Sur La Table!