Pumpkin Caramel Custard Food

PUMPKIN CREME CARAMEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Stir sugar and water in heavy medium saucepan until slightly dissolved. Without stirring, cook on medium heat 8 to 10 minutes or until sugar turns golden brown. Immediately pour into 9-inch round cake pan. Wearing oven mitts, quickly swirl and tilt pan to coat bottom and sides of pan with caramelized sugar. Place pan in large shallow baking pan. Let caramelized sugar stand at room temperature to cool and harden slightly.
• Place milks, pumpkin, cream cheese, eggs, pumpkin pie spice and vanilla in blender container; cover. Blend on medium speed until smooth. Pour over caramelized sugar in pan. Pour enough hot water into baking pan to come halfway up side of cake pan.
• Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted in center of flan come out clean. Cool slightly. Carefully remove pan from water. Cool completely on wire rack.
• Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight. Carefully run knife around flan to loosen from pan. Invert onto serving plate. Gently remove cake pan.

PUMPKIN CUSTARD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter 6 custard cups or ramekins.
• Mix eggs, egg yolks, and flour together in a bowl until smooth. Whisk pumpkin puree, half-and-half, milk, sugar, salt, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger into egg mixture until smooth; spoon into prepared custard cups.
• Arrange custard cups onto a large baking pan. Pour enough water around the custard cups to fill pan halfway.
• Bake in the preheated oven until custards are set in the middle, about 40 minutes. Serve at room temperature or chilled.

PUMPKIN CUSTARD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Blend all ingredients except caramels, COOL WHIP and nuts in blender until smooth.
• Pour into 1-1/2-qt. casserole sprayed with cooking spray; place in shallow pan. Add enough boiling water to pan to come halfway up side of casserole dish.
• Bake 55 min. to 1 hour 5 min. or until center of custard is set when gently shaken. Remove casserole dish from water bath; place dish on wire rack. Cool completely. Refrigerate 6 hours or until chilled.
• Microwave caramels and COOL WHIP in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min. 45 sec. to 2 min. or until caramels are completely melted and sauce is well blended, stirring every 30 sec.
• Serve custard topped with caramel sauce and nuts.

PUMPKIN CUSTARD PROFITEROLES WITH MAPLE CARAMEL

Steps:

• For maple caramel:
• Stir sugar and butter in heavy small saucepan over medium heat until blended and smooth. Whisk in cream. Bring to boil, stirring until caramel bits dissolve. Reduce heat to medium and simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in bourbon and vanilla; simmer 1 minute. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
• For pumpkin custard:
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Whisk cream and next 6 ingredients in heavy large saucepan. Bring to simmer over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Whisk sugar and egg yolks in medium bowl. Gradually stir hot pumpkin mixture into egg yolk mixture.
• Pour pumpkin custard into 8x8x2-inch glass baking dish; cover with foil. Place dish in 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Fill baking pan with enough hot water to come halfway up sides of dish. Bake until custard is set in center, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool completely. Cover and chill until cold, at least 4 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep chilled.)
• For profiteroles:
• Preheat oven to 425°F. Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Bring 1/2 cup water, milk, butter, sugar, and salt to boil in heavy large saucepan. Stir in flour; cook over medium-high heat, stirring vigorously, until dough is smooth and pulls away from sides of pan, about 1 minute. Transfer hot mixture to standing mixer. Beat dough with paddle attachment at medium speed until slightly cool, about 3 minutes. Add 3 eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Beat in egg yolk until blended.
• Spoon 16 mounds of batter about the size of large eggs onto prepared sheets, spacing about 2 inches apart. Beat remaining egg in small bowl to blend. Brush tops of profiteroles lightly with beaten egg. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven to 375°F. Continue baking until puffed and dark golden brown, about 30 minutes longer. Transfer to rack to cool completely. (Can be made 1 week ahead. Store in airtight container in freezer. Remove from freezer a few hours before continuing.)
• Rewarm caramel sauce. Using serrated knife, slice profiteroles horizontally in half. Spoon rounded 1/3 cup filling into bottom half of each profiterole. Cover with top halves. Drizzle with sauce. Spoon dollop of whipped cream atop profiteroles. Sprinkle with chopped pecans and serve.

PUMPKIN CUSTARD TART WITH RED-WINE CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• Make dough:
• Pulse almonds, flour, baking powder, salt, and spices in a food processor until nuts are very finely ground.
• Beat together butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in egg. Add flour mixture in 2 batches, mixing at low speed just until a dough forms. Form dough into a disk and chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 2 hours.
• Whisk together brown sugar, eggs, molasses, salt, and spices. Whisk in pumpkin, then cream.
• Assemble and bake tart:
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin into a 12-inch round. (Dough will be sticky, so rotate frequently and dust surface with flour as needed.) Slide bottom of tart pan under dough and set into rim of tart pan. Press dough against side of pan and trim excess. (Dough cracks easily but can be patched.)
• Line shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake in lower third of oven until dough is set and pale golden, 15 to 20 minutes. Carefully remove foil and weights, then add custard, spreading evenly. Sprinkle top with pine nuts and bake until filling is set, 30 to 35 minutes. (If edge of crust is browning too quickly, cover edge with foil or a piecrust shield.) Cool completely in pan on a rack.
• Remove rim of tart pan, leaving tart on pan bottom, and transfer to a platter.