Flan

Yield 14 molds

Caramel

1/2 cup + 1/3 cup water

1 cup sugar

Some lemon juice (to help slow down the crystallize process)

DO NOT stir while making caramel.

Wait until the sugar color turn to yellow to add lemon juice. 

Flan

6 eggs

6 egg yolks 

1 cup sugar

4 cups whole milk

1 bag vanilla powder (DO NOT use vanilla extract)

-Preheat oven 300 degrees. 

-Put milk into the sauce pan, heat the milk until it becomes simmer then turn off the heat. 

-Use mixer to blend eggs and sugar together (add sugar little by little while mixing with the eggs) until it becomes light and foamy. 

-Slowly pour the milk into the egg mixture while continue stirring it up together (so the hot milk doesn't cook the egg mixture). 

-Add vanilla and stir it up. 

-Discard the foam on top of the mixture. 

-Strain it and pour it into molds. 

-Place them in baking tray. Put in oven and pour hot water (not boiling hot water) in the tray about 2/3 way up of the baking pan. 

***If the water is boiling in the oven then you need to reduce the heat of the oven otherwise the flan will have bubbles in it.
-Bake for about 50 mins.

-To check if the flan is done, insert a toothpick into the flan, if it comes out clean, it's done.