Dessert Recipes - Coffee Dairy Dessert Recipe

Ingredients

• 600 ml/1 pt/2 1/2 cups milk

• 2 eggs

• 2 egg yolks

• 30 ml/2 tbsp granulated sugar

• 15 ml/1 tbsp instant coffee powder or granules

• Icing (confectioners') sugar, for dusting

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Method:

1. Bring the milk to the boil. Whisk together the eggs, egg yolks, sugar and coffee thoroughly. Whisk in the hot milk.

2. Strain into six individual ovenproof dishes. Stand the dishes in a roasting tin (pan) containing 2.5 cm/1 in boiling water.

3. Cover the dishes with foil. Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3 for about 40 minutes until the custard is set.

4. Remove from the heat, leave to cool, then chill. Dust with a little sifted icing sugar before serving.