Chocolate Creme Brulee with Caramelized Bananas Recipes

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Serving Size: 6
Cuisine: French
Main Ingredient: Banana
Categories: Winter, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving, New Year, Fall, Easter, Christmas, Bake, Cream, Milk, Desserts

-= Ingredients =-
1/2 cup Milk ; plus 2 tablespoons
3/4 cup Heavy cream
3 1/2 ounces Bittersweet chocolate
5 Egg yolks
1/3 cup Granulated sugar ; plus 1/2 tablespoon
1/3 cup Light brown sugar
4 Bananas

-= Instructions =-
Preheat oven to 275 degrees.    Bring the milk and the cream mixed together to a boil. Add the chopped  chocolate into the cream and milk mixture, set aside for 5 minutes.    In a mixing bowl, beat the egg yolks with the granulated sugar.

While whipping the egg mixture, pour in the milk, cream and chocolate mixture. 

Let cool.    Fill six ungreased ramekins with equal amounts of the chocolate brulee  mixture.    Poach in a water bath in the oven for about 40 minutes.   

When the creme brulees are poached, transfer them to a sheet pan and let  cool. Decorate the top of each with 5 or 6 slices of bananas.

Sprinkle with  brown sugar and broil the creme brulees under the broiler until the sugar  melts and turns golden color.    Yield: 6 servings    Formatted by suechef@sover.net    Recipe by: Chocoholic Party HE1A25    Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #883 by Sue <suechef@sover.net> on Nov 04,  1997