Easy Baked Custard with Caramel Sauce

 Baked Custard... one of my top comfort foods since I was a kid.  Baked custard is very similar to the caramel flan found in Mexican restaurants, although good caramel flan usually has a crunchy sugar coating on top rather than a caramel sauce topping.

This recipe is very quick and easy to put togetherr and makes for a great dessert warm or cold. 

Easy Baked Custard with Caramel Sauce

Recipe by Glenna Anderson Muse

Ingredients:

• 4 cups Milk (2%, Whole, or Half & Half, dpending on how rich you'd like it to be)
• 4 eggs plus 2 egg yolks, beaten
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup commercially prepared caramel sauce

Directions:

1) With mixer, beat eggs and sugar together. Add milk, salt, and vanilla and mix thoroughly.

2) Pour into 2 qt greased baking dish and bake at 325 degrees in hot water bath (this dish inside a bigger dish filled with water) for 55-65 minutes until custard reaches 140 degrees in center. 

3) While still hat, Pour caramel over top of custard.  Can serve warm or chilled.

Makes 6  3/4 cup servings.

Nutrition per serving:  Calories: 358     Protein:  7   Carbs:  77     Fat:  4   Fiber:     .5 Weight Watchers Points:  10