PINA COLADA FLAN

This is the desert that I mentioned on my last post.

I was watching TV last night and thinking I must post this right away and then realized that I screwed up my flan recipe by omitting the can of regular milk which I usually use with the evaporated and condensed.

I have to laugh because it did not need it and my new recipe is so delicious.
The proof being, we ate the whole thing.


Flan:

1 cup of sugar
6 oz. of Bacardi Coco Rum
1 14 oz. can condensed milk
1 13.5 oz. can evaporated milk
1 20 oz. can pineapple chunks drained, remove 15 chunks and set aside
6 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ounces of shredded coconut - I had sweetened





Preparation:

Caramel: 

In a non-stick saucepan over medium heat, cook sugar with 3 ounces of rum stir until melted and golden in color. Pour into your mold coating bottom and sides. Let cool.

Flan:

In a blender add  3 ounces of rum, condensed milk, evaporated, vanilla and eggs.  Blend and then add coconut and pineapples, pulse for a few seconds. 

Preheat your oven at 350 degrees. Pour mixture into prepared mold and place mold into a large roasting pan filled halfway with water to make your Bain de Marie.

Bake for about 50 minutes or until set. You can use a toothpick to test. Let cool completely.


Unmold onto your serving dish.  I used a pineapple mold cutter and removed the piece of flan and set it aside.  I then took the 15 chunks of pineapple and put in blender with a few drops of rum and made a puree.  I filled the pineapple cavity and put the cut out on top of puree.  Delicioso!



                                                             BUEN PROVECHO!