Lord Bergamot Crème Brûlée

What happens when you take our best-selling black tea blend, Lord Bergamot, and make it a crème brûlée? Beautiful, sugar-shattering things. Developed in partnership with baker Karlee Flores of Olive and Artisan.

Makes 6 Crème Brûlée

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 2 tbsp loose leaf Lord Bergamot
  • 5 egg yolks
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1/2 cup sugar, plus more for topping

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
  2. In a medium saucepan over low heat, warm the heavy cream and loose-leaf tea just until fragrant and the cream starts to turn caramel, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit and steep until room temperature. Strain into a liquid measuring cup. The mixture will lose some liquid in this process, add more cream to bring back up to 2 liquid cups.

  3. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks, salt and ½ cup sugar together until pale, about 3 minutes. Stream in the cream mixture and stir to combine. Pour evenly into 6 oven safe tea cups and place in a baking dish or roaster. Fill the roaster with about an inch of hot water. Place in the oven uncovered for 40-45 minutes until the custard is set.

  4. Let come to room temperature before placing in the fridge before serving.
  5. Right before serving, top each cup with 1 teaspoon of sugar and spread evenly across the top. Using a kitchen torch, lightly heat the sugar until melted and caramelized. Repeat this process for an extra crunch.
  6. Enjoy.

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