Flan cupcakes are a delightful fusion of two classic desserts: the creamy, custard-like flan and the fluffy, moist cupcake. These individual servings offer a perfect balance of textures and flavors, making them a hit at any gathering. The flan layer is made with a mixture of eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla extract, which is baked in a cupcake pan until set. The cupcake layer is a simple vanilla batter that is poured on top of the flan mixture and baked until golden brown. The result is a cupcake with a tender crumb, a smooth and creamy custard center, and a delicate caramel glaze. This recipe provides detailed instructions for making both the flan and cupcake layers, as well as a step-by-step guide for assembling the cupcakes. Additionally, the article includes variations such as chocolate flan cupcakes, strawberry flan cupcakes, and even a gluten-free version, catering to different preferences and dietary restrictions.
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FLAN CUPCAKES
Chocolate Cupcakes, frosted with Salted Caramel Buttercream, topped with a mini flan.
Provided by camila
Categories Dessert
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Pre-heat oven to 350F. Line a 12-cupcake pan with cupcake liners or grease it with butter and flour.
- Sift flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, espresso powder, and salt together in a large bowl.
- In another bowl, mix coffee, vinegar, vanilla and oil. Pour dry mixture over wet ingredients. Whisk briefly, until incorporated. Be careful not to overmix. As soon as you see no more streaks of dry mixture, stop whisking.
- Distribute batter evenly in cupcake pans.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes.
- Remove and let it cool.
- Melt butter, brown sugar, and 2 tablespoons of heavy cream in a small saucepan.
- Once mixtures comes to a boil, turn the heat down and stir, while cooking, for about 2 minutes, until sugar is dissolved.
- Remove from the heat. Let mixture cool down for about 20-30 minutes. Transfer it to a mixer bowl.
- Add powdered sugar, and 2 more tablespoons of heavy cream to the caramel. Mix on low, and then cream mixture on medium high speed.
- Add the remaining heavy cream if the mixture is too stiff.
- Pipe frosting on top of cupcakes. With a spatula, carefully remove mini flan from the pan, and place it on top of the cupcake.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 550 kcal, ServingSize 1 serving
FLAN CUPAKES
Simple Flan cupakes with a caramel glaze, made from a boxed cake mix.
Provided by Raquel Pineira
Categories Dessert
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Farenheit. Grease muffin tins with oil or shortening. Heat the 2 cups of sugar over medium heat in a saucepan until it liquifies into caramel. Stir it often so it does not burn. When liquid, pour into prepared muffin tin.
- Grease muffin tins with oil or shortening
- Heat the 2 cups of sugar over medium heat in a saucepan until it liquifieshow lo into caramel. Stir it often so it does not burn. When liquid, pour into prepared muffin tin.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 73 kcal, Carbohydrate 17 g, Protein 1 g, Fat 1 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 20 mg, Sodium 8 mg, Sugar 17 g, UnsaturatedFat 2 g, ServingSize 1 serving
EASY FLAN RECIPE
An easy flan recipe made with only 5 simple ingredients! This creamy custard dessert is topped with caramel and popular in Mexico, Spain and Latin America.
Provided by Isabel Eats
Categories Dessert
Time 5h35m
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Pour the sugar into a skillet over medium heat. Stir the sugar continually until it begins to brown and clump together. Keep stirring until the sugar completely melts and dissolves into a golden-brown syrup. Remove the syrup from the heat as soon as it has dissolves as it can burn.
- Working quickly, carefully pour the caramel into a 7-inch round pan or a special flan pan (flanera) as shown in the photos in the blog post. Pour the caramel evenly into the bottom of the pan so the entire bottom is coated. If you need to, use an oven mitt or potholders to move the pan from side to side to get the caramel evenly distributed. If the caramel hardens too quickly, you can carefully reheat the pan by placing it directly on the stove or on the skillet for a few seconds.
- Set the caramel-coated pan aside to cool and harden.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the eggs, sweetened condensed milk, whole milk and vanilla extract. Whisk together until everything is fully combined, but try not to overwhisk so that there aren't too many air bubbles in the mixture.
- Pour the custard mixture into the caramel-coated pan. Cover the top of the pan with the lid (if using a flanera) or tightly with aluminum foil.
- Place the flan pan in a large baking dish and pour enough water in the dish until it reaches about halfway up the pan. Carefully place the baking dish in the oven and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Carefully remove the dish from the oven, and then lift the flan pan out of the water bath. Remove the lid or aluminum foil and let it cool to room temperature. The flan may still be a little jiggly, but that's okay - it will continue to cook with the residual heat.
- Once it's cooled, cover with the lid or aluminum foil and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
- To serve, remove the lid or aluminum foil and slide a knife along the edges of the pan to loosen it up. Place a plate or platter on top of the flan, grab a hold of both the plate and the pan and quickly and securely flip it over so that the flan is now upside down. Carefully lift off the flan pan. Your flan should be sitting in the caramel on the plate, ready to enjoy!
- Carefully lift the flan pan up. The flan should be on the plate - if it's not, place the pan back down and let it sit for a few minutes. Don't freak out! It will loosen up and slide out. You could try tapping the sides of the pan a bit or even giving the sides a squeeze.
- Slice the flan and serve with the rich caramel sauce!
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 slice, Calories 298 kcal, Carbohydrate 48 g, Protein 8 g, Fat 8 g, SaturatedFat 4 g, Cholesterol 110 mg, Sodium 98 mg, Sugar 48 g
FLAN CUPCAKES
Steps:
- For the flan custard: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium pot over medium heat, add sugar and 1/2 cup water. Cook until the sugar caramelizes and turns an amber color, about 10 minutes, without stirring. Pour the caramelized sugar into an 8- by 10-inch pan or 10-inch cake pan and let it cool.
- In a blender, blend the eggs, cream cheese, condensed milk and evaporated milk. Blend for about 4 minutes.
- Pour the mixture into the pan. Put the pan inside an 11- by 14-inch pan. Put water into the larger pan until almost full. Bake until it sets and has a slight uniform jiggle, about 1 hour. When done, take the smaller pan out of the larger pan and let it cool.
- For the cupcakes: Line cupcake tins with paper liners. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Cream the butter and granulated sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy and light. Add the eggs, one at a time beating well between each addition. Then add the vanilla and mix until fluffy. Fold in the flour mixture, alternating with the milk. Do not over mix. Portion into the prepared cupcake tins. Bake for about 20 minutes.
- For the frosting: Combine the cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar and vanilla in a standing mixer or large bowl. Mix until smooth and spreadable.
- To assemble the cupcakes: Cut a hole in the top of each cupcake with an apple corer. Fill a pastry bag with the flan. Pipe in enough flan to fill the hole in the cupcake. Top each cupcake with frosting.
CHOCOFLAN
Provided by Marcela Valladolid
Categories dessert
Time 2h20m
Yield 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Put an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
- Coat a Bundt pan with a little butter, then coat the bottom with 1/4 cup cajeta and put it in a large roasting pan. (The roasting pan will serve as a water bath during baking.)
- For the cake: Add the butter and sugar to a bowl and using an electric hand mixer or stand mixer, beat until light and fluffy, then beat in the egg. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa in a medium bowl. Beat 1/3 of the flour mixture, and 1/2 of the buttermilk into the egg mixture. Repeat, ending with the flour mixture. Blend until well incorporated.
- For the flan: In a blender, combine the evaporated milk, condensed milk, cream cheese, eggs and vanilla. Blend on high for 30 seconds.
- Scoop the cake batter into the prepared Bundt pan and spreading evenly. Slowly pour the flan mixture over the cake batter. Cover with foil and add about 1-inch of hot water to the roasting pan.
- Carefully slide the pan into the oven, and bake 1 hour, until the surface of the cake is firm to the touch, or an inserted toothpick comes out clean. When cake is done, remove from the water bath and cool completely to room temperature, about 1 hour.
- Invert a large, rimmed serving platter over the Bundt pan, grasp tightly together, jiggle a little and flip over. Remove the pan and scrape any remaining cajeta from the pan onto the cake, garnish with chopped pecans and serve!
CHOCOFLAN
Can't decide whether to serve chocolate cake or flan for dessert? Have your cake and eat your flan, too, with a recipe that combines two distinctive flavors in one crowd-pleasing recipe.
Provided by Paula Kittelson
Categories Dessert
Time 4h35m
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 12-cup fluted tube cake pan with cooking spray. Pour and spread caramel topping in bottom of pan.
- In large bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil and 3 eggs with electric mixer on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter over caramel topping in pan.
- In blender, place Flan ingredients. Cover; blend on high speed about 20 seconds or until smooth. Slowly pour mixture evenly over batter. (Flan mixture will mix with batter, but they will separate during baking, forming 1 layer of cake and 1 layer of flan.) Spray piece of foil with cooking spray, and place sprayed side down over top of pan; cover tightly.
- Place cake pan in large roasting pan; add 1 inch of hot water to roasting pan.
- Bake 1 hour 20 minutes to ensure cake AND flan layer bake completely (toothpick inserted in center of cake will come out clean). Remove cake pan from water bath to cooling rack; remove foil. Cool at room temperature 1 hour. Refrigerate in pan, uncovered, 2 hours.
- Remove from refrigerator; run thin metal spatula around outer and inside edges of pan to loosen cake. Place serving plate upside down on cake pan; turn plate and pan over. Remove pan. Spoon any remaining caramel from pan over top of cake. Store loosely covered in refrigerator.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 300, Carbohydrate 39 g, Cholesterol 90 mg, Fat 2, Fiber 0 g, Protein 6 g, SaturatedFat 4 1/2 g, ServingSize 1 Slice, Sodium 310 mg, Sugar 26 g, TransFat 0 g
FLAN
This light egg custard recipe comes from a missionary friend who lives in Mexico. It's very typical of the Southwest...and very delicious!
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 45m
Yield 12 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sugar and salt. Stir in milk and vanilla. Sift brown sugar into eight 5-oz. custard cups or a 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. Pour custard mixture over sugar. , Place in shallow baking pan of hot water. Bake at 325° for 30-40 minutes or until knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Chill overnight. Sprinkle with additional brown sugar before serving or unmold to serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 165 calories, Fat 5g fat (2g saturated fat), Cholesterol 151mg cholesterol, Sodium 122mg sodium, Carbohydrate 23g carbohydrate (23g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 6g protein.
Tips:
- For a smooth flan, make sure to whisk the eggs and condensed milk together until well blended.
- To prevent the flan from curdling, temper the eggs by slowly whisking in the hot milk mixture.
- Bake the flan in a water bath to prevent it from cracking.
- Chill the flan for at least 4 hours before serving to allow it to set properly.
- Garnish the flan with fresh fruit, whipped cream, or caramel sauce before serving.
Conclusion:
Flan cupcakes are a delicious and easy-to-make dessert that is perfect for any occasion. With a creamy and custard-like filling and a sweet caramel sauce, these cupcakes are sure to be a hit with everyone who tries them. By following these tips, you can make sure that your flan cupcakes turn out perfect every time.
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