Dessert Recipes - Orange Crunch Flan Recipe

Ingredients

• 200 g/7 oz/1 small packet of digestive biscuits (graham crackers), crushed

• 75 g/3 oz/1/3 cup unsalted (sweet) butter, melted

• 5 ml/1tsp mixed (apple-pie) spice

• 15 ml/1 tbsp powdered gelatin

• Finely grated rind and juice of 1 large orange

• 10 ml/2 tsp lemon juice

• 2 eggs, separated

• 75 g/3 oz/1/3cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 300 ml/1 1/4 cups whipping cream Crystallized (candied) orange slices and angelica leaves, to decorate

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Method:

1. Mix the crushed biscuits into the butter and stir in the spice. Press into the base and sides of a 20 cm/8 in flan dish (pie pan).

2. Sprinkle the gelatin over the orange rind and juice and the lemon juice in a small bowl and leave to soften for 5 minutes. Stand the bowl in a pan of hot water and stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved.

3. Meanwhile, beat together the egg yolks and caster sugar until thick and pale. Stir in the gelatin mixture.

4. Whisk the egg whites until stiff. In a separate bowl. whip the cream until peaking. Fold half the cream, then all the egg whites into the orange mixture with a metal spoon.

5. Turn into the Ban case (pie shell) and chill until set. Decorate with the remaining whipped cream, crystallized orange slices and angelica leaves.