Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, caramel pumpkin flan. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

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

So I thought about using coconut sugar to make the caramel. And it would have to be gelatin instead of the eggs in a traditional flan. Not using eggs actually made it a bit easier. That makes this Pumpkin Caramel Flan a great dessert for a crowd or even a pumpkin loving daughter-in-law.

Instructions 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.

Not using eggs actually made it a bit easier. That makes this Pumpkin Caramel Flan a great dessert for a crowd or even a pumpkin loving daughter-in-law. Several years ago one of my former coworkers gave me her authentic Mexican Caramel Flan recipe. I decided to try and adapt it by substituting pumpkin for the cream cheese, added pumpkin pie spice and exchanged the vanilla for vanilla bean paste. In addition, I switched one of the whole.

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