Ingredients: For 2 round flans of 18 cm in diameter
Basque shortbread dough
60 g of semi-salted butter
60 g brown sugar
100 g of T45 flour
10 g baking powder
Custard cream
700 g of semi-skimmed or whole milk
200 g thick crème fraîche or mascarpone
120 g of unrefined sugar or pure cane sugar
60 g cornstarch (cornflour)
20 g orange blossom
120 g egg yolks (about 6 yolks)
2 vanilla pods
Finishing :
A knob of butter to butter the mold
Fruit syrup or neutral topping (optional)
Foolproof Parisian flan recipe
Preparation :
Basque shortbread dough:
In a salad bowl, put the softened semi-salted butter, the brown sugar, the flour and the baking powder. Mix with your fingertips until you obtain a compact dough like shortcrust pastry. Do not knead the dough, work it as if you were making a crumble, as the dough becomes more and more compact.
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