Dessert Recipes from Brittany: Flan d’oeufs and Cake Nature

Many of us are spending much (or all) of our time indoors these days, and, while challenging, it forces us to reach into our refrigerators and cupboards and cook up more homemade meals. Not only are cooking and baking wonderful diversions from life’s stresses, the process leaves our homes filled with smells that remind us of happier times. In every culture, people come together around food, sharing stories and following cherished family recipes, following instructions on old cards, in handwriting that belonged to someone we loved. Those moments bring us comfort and joy in both good and difficult times.

I asked my dear friend if she would send me a few recipes for the desserts she bakes when we are in France, so that when I recreate them here, some 4,000 miles away, I can pretend that we are once again sitting at her kitchen table, chatting about everything under the sun, coffee in hand, laughing out loud, enjoying those little moments in life that means so much.

I hope that you, my dear readers, will be willing to share your favorite recipes so that I can share them on this blog. By doing so, we will all be brought together – virtually, of course – to try each other’s recipes and hopefully making these days and weeks a little more bearable …. maybe even a little fun.

The first recipe is for a delicious dessert that is fairly simple to make, and with ingredients you likely have on hand. I will include her recipe in French, and translate for my (English) readers.

Flan d’oeufs

Faire chauffer 1 l de lait avec 150 grammes de sucre
Gently heat 4 1/4 cups of milk with 3/4 cup sugar.

Pendant que le lait chauffe… Casser 6 œufs et les mélanger comme une omelette.
While the milk is heating, break six eggs in a large bowl and mix them together as if you were making an omelette.

Verser le lait sur les œufs tout en brassant.
Pour the milk into the eggs and mix together.

Verser la préparation dans le moule…
Pour mixture into bundt pan…

Attention… Il est important que le four soit froid. Note: It’s important that the oven is cold when putting the pan in.

Étape 1 mettre au four pendant 20 minutes à 120 degrés
Step 1: Turn oven on, and place in cold oven while it is heating to 245 degrees F. Bake at 245 degrees F for 20 minutes.

Étape 2: Mettre 10 minutes à 180 degrés
Step 2: Bake 10 minutes at 360 degrees F.

Étape 3: mettre 5 minutes à 210 degrés….. Une jolie couleur caramel va apparaître
Step 3: Bake 5 minutes at 410 degrees F. The top will turn a beautiful shade of caramel, and you will, hopefully, end up with a delicious looking dessert like Isabelle’s!

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Et voilà le résultat. Laissez refroidir. Peut se manger tiède ou froid… Ne pas démouler…. Se servir une part dans une coupelle…… À vous de faire…. And here is the result! Let cool. This dessert can be eaten at room temperature or cold. Do not try to take it out of the pan, simply serve as is. Portion as you wish. It’s up to you. 🙂

And because we love dessert, here is a second recipe!

Ingredients and instructions in English:

1 cup sugar

1 1/8 cups flour

3/4 tablespoon of oil

4 eggs

I sachet of baking powder

1 sachet of vanilla sugar

After heating the oven to 350 degrees F, prepare the loaf tin by adding a little butter to all sides of the loaf pan, then dusting with flour.

In a large bowl, mix the eggs and oil together, then add the flour, butter and vanilla sugar. Beat well.

Pour carefully into loaf pan…

Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees F.

Voila! Enjoy!

Please let me know if you try this recipe and, if so, how it turns out for you.

Please do share your own recipes, so that I can add them to the blog. I think it will be great fun to see how many recipes we can create together!

Stay well, friends!

Amy