Skinny Eggnog Creme Brulee
Have your creme brulee and eat it, too! With no added guilt! This skinny eggnog creme brulee has all the flavor of your holiday favorite, just a little skinnier.
Dish Count :: 1 Saucepan, 1 Bowl, 8 (or so) Ramekins, 1 13×9 pan
Realizing you don’t know how to sleep next to your husband anymore is a real weird problem to have. You realize that two full size humans and one human sized dog just don’t fit onto a queen bed anymore, and that the dog insists that his spot at the foot of the bed is sacrosanct and will not budge for anyone, especially someone deemed an intruder during his 9pm-4am shift of sleeps with mom.
The most first worldiest of problems here, friends!
Ben has been juggling night shifts, and now has a nursing continuation class this morning right in the middle of his usual sleep time, which we could all agree is no bueno. So he decided a few hours of shut eye would be a good idea and at 2 am came in to try and squeeze into bed between me and the dog. To no avail.
90 pounds of dead weight Huck is not easy to move at 2 am, a sleeping wife that wakes from a dead sleep to the sound of a door opening ready to do battle is well, not pleasant either. Poor Ben. Someone please take sympathy on this man.
Ingredients for Skinny Eggnog Creme Brulee
- Vanilla Bean
- Half and Half
- Milk
- Sugar
- Salt
- Rum Extract
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Cloves
- Egg Yolks
- Cornstarch
- Sugar
So he squeezed in, cuddling with me – which let me tell you – I forgot what it’s like to fall asleep in your husband’s arms, and him finagling some space around the dog for his feet. It was not the most restful sleep for either of us. Send prayers for a well caffeinated day.
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Skinny Eggnog Creme Brulee
- Prep Time: 20 Minutes
- Cook Time: 30 Minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: French
Description
Have your creme brulee and eat it, too! With no added guilt! This skinny eggnog creme brulee has all the flavor of your holiday favorite, just a little skinnier.
Ingredients
- 1 Vanilla Bean, halved and scraped of seeds and reserved
- 2 cups Half and Half
- 1 1/2 cup Milk
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 2–3 tsp Rum Extract
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg, ground
- 1 tsp Cinnamon, ground
- 1/4 tsp Cloves, ground
- 5 Egg Yolks
- 2 Tablespoons Cornstarch
- 8 tsp Fine Sugar
Instructions
- Adjust your oven rack to the middle position and heat oven to 300 degrees.
- In a sauce pan combine vanilla bean, vanilla bean seeds (caviar), half and half, milk, sugar, salt, and rum extract and spices. Whisk to combine and bring the mixture to a heavy simmer/low boil. Remove from heat.
- In a small bowl or dish whisk together the egg yolks and cornstarch until they are combined and smooth. Temper the eggs with about a 1/2 cup of the hot milk mixture, whisking the milk into the eggs as you pour. This will prevent the eggs from curdling. Once the eggs are tempered, whisk the whole thing into hot milk mixture.
- Bring the entire custard mixture to a boil over medium high heat, whisking frequently. Whisk until thickened, about 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat and strain into a bowl to remove any clumps and vanilla bean.
- Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil.
- Place ramekins or other creme brulee dishes into a roasting pan. Divide the thickened custard mixture into the dishes. Place the pan and custard onto the oven rack and pour the boiling water around the ramekins until the water comes about ½ way up the sides of the dishes. Gently slide into oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Transfer the custards to a wire rack to allow to cool to room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold.
- When ready to torch, dab away any condensation from the tops of the custards. Sprinkle custards with fine sugar and caramelize with a torch or under a preheated broiler. Serve immediately.
Keywords: Dessert, Eggnog, Holiday, Recipe, Creme Brulee
Now this the what I call a PERFECT dessert <3
Yes! This sounds incredible.
Oh my, I love this idea! Such a fun way to get holiday flavour in creme brulee!
You just took my favorite dessert and made it healthier. I’m bowing down to you at this very moment. Yeah, getting my golden retriever to move over is quite the feat. Who’s in charge? Well, it’s certainly not me or my husband. #thedogrules
You have magical powers, my friend!! Skinny creme brûlée?!!! Genius!
Laughing so hard at this. Girlfriend, you need a KING bed.
Also, this creme brulee needs to happen in my life. Nog <3 forever!
Creme brulee holiday style – yes please!!
Count me in for this skinny dessert. Hope you get some GOOD sleep soon.
” In a small dish combine fine sugar. Sprinkle custards with fine sugar mixture and ”
Confused about the ‘Combine fine sugar”, what is it combined with???? I don’t see what in the recipe.
Please no offense, but I appreciate the story about the dog and husband, however; I subscribe to your blog for your recipes, so in reading the story and then the recipe I seemed to have missed something?????
Sorry for the typo and confusion. The recipe is fixed. And you didn’t miss anything relating to the story and the recipe – sometimes a story doesn’t have a direct tie to a recipe it’s just me writing and telling you about my day.
I hear ya! I used to tell my husband that we absolutely could not get a king bed, being relatively vertically challenged I thought we’d never find each other! Annnndd two years later, I realllly wish we would have. Husband + wife + dog = cramped!
Major creme brulee love over here!!
I can totally picture him trying to gracefully squeeze in the bed!!! lol!!! PS I want these!!
It’s been far too long since I have made creme brulee. Loving the idea of eggnog! And also that you made them in mason jars, so cute.
Thanks for sharing this recipe. It looks yummy 🙂
Love this flavor combo! They look amazing!