Plum And Soured Cream Flan Food

FRESH PLUM FLAN

Steps:

• Cream together sugar, butter.
• Beat in eggs, beat well.
• Combine flour, baking powder and rind.
• Beat into egg mixture alternately with milk, making 3 additions of flour and 2 of milk.
• Put batter into greased 10 inch springform pan or a 9 inch square baking dish.
• Arrange plums, cut side down, in circles on top, gently press into batter.
• Combine topping- sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle over fruit.
• Bake in 350 degree (180 C) oven 45-55 minutes.

FRESH PLUM TART WITH SOUR CREAM TOPPING

Steps:

• Position rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 400°F. Line heavy large rimless baking sheet with foil. Roll out puff pastry on lightly floured work surface to 14-inch square. Cut off 1-inch-wide strips from each side of square. Brush strips with beaten egg. Place strips atop edges of pastry square, egg side down, pressing to adhere. Trim ends to fit. Transfer pastry square to prepared baking sheet. Combine almonds, 2 tablespoons sugar and flour in small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over bottom of pastry. (Can be made 3 hours ahead. Chill.)
• Place plums in large bowl. Add 4 tablespoons sugar; toss to coat. Arrange plums decoratively over almond mixture.
• Bake tart until pastry is golden brown and puffed and plums are tender, about 30 minutes. Transfer pan to rack. Using metal spatula, loosen tart from baking sheet, leaving tart on sheet.
• Stir preserves and water in heavy small saucepan over low heat until preserves melt. Brush over warm plums.
• Beat cream, sour cream and 1 tablespoon sugar in medium bowl until soft peaks form. Serve tart warm or at room temperature with sour cream topping.

SOUR CREAM AND PLUM FLAN

Steps:

• Make the shortcrust pastry: sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Rub in the butter cut into small pieces until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the cold water and mix to a dough. Chill for 15 minutes before using to line a 24cm flan tin.
• Preheat your oven to 200°C.
• Mix the filling ingredients together.
• Place the plums cut side up onto the flan case. Pour the filling on top.
• Put into the oven for 20 minutes.
• Mix the demerara sugar and the mixed spice and sprinkle onto the flan. Put the flan back in the oven at 230°C for another 20 minutes until golden on top.
• Leave to cool for a few minutes before serving or serve cold with vanilla ice-cream.

EASY SOUR CREAM & CARAMEL FLAN

Steps:

• Line 8-inch square pan with plastic wrap, with ends of wrap extending over sides. Spray with cooking spray. Whisk eggs in medium bowl until blended.
• Bring milks to boil in medium saucepan on medium heat, stirring constantly. Gradually add half the milk mixture to eggs, whisking constantly until blended. Add to remaining milk mixture in saucepan; mix well. Cook and stir on medium-high heat 1 to 2 min. or until thickened.
• Pour milk mixture into medium bowl; stir in vanilla. Place filled bowl in larger bowl half-filled with ice water. Cool egg mixture completely, stirring occasionally. Stir in sour cream. Pour into prepared pan. Freeze 4 hours or until firm.
• Unmold flan onto plate just before serving; discard plastic wrap. Drizzle flan with dulce de leche. Slice mango; arrange over flan.

SWEET & CREAMY SOUR CREAM FLAN

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Bring sugar and water to boil in saucepan on medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium; cook 5 min. or until mixture is golden brown and of syrup-like consistency, carefully swirling pan every few minutes. (Do not stir.) Pour into 9-inch round pan.
• Blend all remaining ingredients except eggs in blender until smooth. Add eggs; blend well. Pour over syrup in pan; cover. Place filled pan in larger pan; add enough water to larger pan to come halfway up side of 9-inch pan.
• Bake 1 hour 15 min. or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Remove flan from water-filled pan; cool completely. Refrigerate 4 hours. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen flan; unmold onto plate.

GERMAN PLUM TART

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream butter and 3 tablespoons sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk. Gradually add flour, 1/4 cup at a time, until mixture forms a soft dough. Press onto the bottom and up the sides of a 9-in. pie plate., Arrange plums, skin side up with edges overlapping, in crust; sprinkle with remaining sugar. Bake at 350° for 35-45 minutes or until crust is golden brown and fruit is tender.