Leche Flan

I love leche flan, this is my favorite Filipino dessert. I like it creamy and without any bubbles.

I never fail to buy 3 Llanera from SM Makati's tiange whenever we do our groceries there. It's 3 for P100. Another good quality leche flan is from Conti's. Surprisingly this is very cheap. P95 per 6" diameter.

When i was younger, my Tita Lita and I used to cook this every Christmas or whenever we have family get together. We already forgot the recipe so we now had to find a good recipe for our Cafe.

While I was on maternity leave, Cafe staff tried it twice. They used the reliable Nora Daza's recipe. First try, the flan was ok but the caramel was pale. Second try, the caramel was ok but the texture was not nice. It looked like a taho. Which was really embarrassing.

How hard can is it to look for the perfect flan recipe...

Well, this afternoon, we tried the recipe of our new kitchen staff. And instead of steaming, we baked it via baine marie. I waited for the flan to be baked before i went home. It was worth the wait, flan was creamy, without bubbles, sugar was burned to a perfect caramel.

Hurray!!!

PS. Hay, life seemed simpler now than when i was working in IBM. I get pleasure in finding the perfect recipe and raving about it.