Custard Recipes

Custard is a dessert that can please all palates because it comes in so many variations. Whether you try a recipe for Frozen Caramel Custard, Double-Deck Chocolate Custards, or Cinnamon-Pumpkin Custard, you'll quickly become a custard connoisseur.

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Baked Custard with Coffee Sauce

From Better Homes and Gardens

Coffee-flavored sauce is the finishing touch for these make-ahead baked custards.

Baked Custard with Coffee Sauce

Chocolate-Stout Tiramisu

From Food & Wine

For this rich tiramisu, Jason McCullar first makes a ginger-spiced cake using a recipe from Steen's syrup, a Louisiana cane syrup (steensyrup.com). Then he soaks the cake in a reduction made with chocolate stout (Rogue brewery makes a good version) before layering it with mascarpone cream.

Chocolate-Stout Tiramisu

Paul Costello
Caramel Flans

From Better Homes and Gardens

Warm caramel flows over these 5-ingredient flan Mexican desserts. These creamy custards are irresistible.

Caramel Flans

Irish Pots De Creme

From Family Circle

Pots de creme are creamy, rich custards baked in individual dishes. In this version, Irish cream liqueur adds its distinctive flavor to the classic dessert recipe.

Irish Pots De Creme

Amazing Creme Caramel

From Better Homes and Gardens

Here's our version of flan, a Latin dessert. Citrus peel and cinnamon are steeped with the milk to add a unique flavor.

Amazing Creme Caramel

Brown Sugar Custards with Orange Zest

From Food & Wine

Low-fat evaporated milk gives sauces and desserts creaminess without using cream. "I put it in pasta sauces, panna cotta, quiche, tea -- you can't tell the difference," Pam Anderson says.

Brown Sugar Custards with Orange Zest

Stephanie Foley
Caramel Cream Pie with Crispy Rice Topping

From Food & Wine

Humble ingredients like puffed rice cereal (transformed into a brilliant topping) and graham crackers (crushed with hazelnuts to yield a tender crust) are the core of this surprisingly luxe dessert.

Caramel Cream Pie with Crispy Rice Topping

Frances Janisch
Frozen Caramel Custard

From Better Homes and Gardens

Caramelized sugar shards are a beautiful professional-looking topping, especially for creamy custards. Follow the steps, using a heavy skillet and the appropriate heat, while resisting the urge to stir.

Frozen Caramel Custard

Chocolate Espresso Pirouette® Parfaits

From Pepperidge Farm

These rich Italian-style stirred custard desserts are spiked with coffee and garnished with cookies and shaved chocolate. They're very easy to make and make a beautiful presentation.

Chocolate Espresso Pirouette® Parfaits

Pots de Creme with Ganache

From Better Homes and Gardens

The chocolate ganache becomes slightly firm, creating a wonderful contrast to the soft custard. If you don't have pot de creme cups, use any small dessert cup.

Pots de Creme with Ganache

Creme Bru-latte

From Better Homes and Gardens

This creamy dessert combines two favorite treats into one. It features the flavors of a latte put into a delicious creme brulee.

Creme Bru-latte

Double-Deck Chocolate Custards

From Better Homes and Gardens

This eye-catching, layered dessert uses both semisweet and bittersweet chocolate.

Double-Deck Chocolate Custards

Tarragon Custard

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this savory tarragon dessert over spring greens.

Tarragon Custard

Poached Pear and Raspberry Trifle

From Better Homes and Gardens

Prepare poached pears and egg custard in advance to prepare this trifle quickly for a dinner party. To top the trifle, add extra pears to the poaching liquid.

Poached Pear and Raspberry Trifle

Raspberry Summer Delight

From Better Homes and Gardens

What makes this tangy yogurt custard such a delight? It's a simple, wonderful, and light way to enjoy fresh raspberries.

Raspberry Summer Delight

Eggnog Custard

From Ladies' Home Journal

Purchased eggnog is made into a smooth and creamy dessert in this holiday recipe.

Eggnog Custard

Baked Pumpkin Custards

From Better Homes and Gardens

These spiced pumpkin custard desserts are lower in calories since they are crustless.

Baked Pumpkin Custards

Brown Butter Custard Pie with Cranberry Glaze

From Food & Wine

To make this glorious pie, Momofuku pastry chef Christina Tosi uses a cinnamon-sugar crumb crust, a luscious brown butter filling and a cranberry glaze. Adorning the dessert: sweet potato-white chocolate ganache.

Brown Butter Custard Pie with Cranberry Glaze

Gabriele Stabile
Toasted-Coconut Custard Tart

From Food & Wine

Jean-Georges Vongerichten loves this tart from his friend Maya Gurley of Maya's Restaurant in St. Bart's. The soft custard filling and the caramelized shredded coconut topping have the creamy-crunchy texture of a coconut macaroon.

Toasted-Coconut Custard Tart

Cedric Angeles
Blackberries with Lemon Cream and Toasted Brioche

From Food & Wine

Molly Hawks-Fagnoni and her husband, Michael Fagnoni, love their homemade brioche so much that they created a dessert for it. They start with a layer of ethereal lemon cream, top it with a toasty slice of the brioche, then dollop it with whipped cream. The finishing touch is tart, juicy blackberries in rosemary-vanilla syrup.

Blackberries with Lemon Cream and Toasted Brioche

Sang An
Cinnamon Custard

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Cinnamon Custard

Custardy Bread Pudding

From Midwest Living

Bourbon-soaked raisins are layered with bread and topped with an egg and cream mixture to make these sophisticated custard desserts.

Custardy Bread Pudding

Apricot Custards

From Better Homes and Gardens

Baked custard, one of the ultimate comfort foods, is updated in this low-fat dessert to showcase the addition of tangy apricots.

Apricot Custards

Chocolate Mint Custard

From Midwest Living

Chocolate mint steeped in milk gives this smooth custard dessert its marvelous flavor.

Chocolate Mint Custard

Mocha Custards

From Better Homes and Gardens

Here's a low-calorie, low-fat chocolate dessert that's easy to make.

Mocha Custards

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