Off The Grid and Nutella Creme Brulee Recipe

Hello there foodies =) I hope everyone had a great spring/Easter Holiday filled with food, fun and family.  

A few weeks ago my boyfriend and I hopped on the BART and took a lovely ~2.5 mile walk (bike carriages are available) along SF’s Embarcadero to attend the season opener of an event called Off The Grid (OTG).  OTG is an event that happens everyday of the week in multiple areas in the Bay Area (San Mateo, UN Plaza, St. Mary’s Square), with the biggest Market on Fridays at Fort Mason in San Francisco.  On the weekdays there can be from 4 to 10 vendors/trucks, and on Fridays there are about 30+ vendors with treats that would satisfy everyone’s taste buds.  

What OTG is, is a gathering of different food vendors in tents, food trucks, carts, etc...  You will find many different types of foods with TONS of fusion and lots of FLARE (similar to the Food Network’s Great Food Truck).  For example the Curry Up Now truck serves items like deconstructed samosas, Chicken Masala Burritos; the Hapa SF truck serves modern organic Filipino food (i.e. sisig, adobo and more).  There is music, there is food; it is a fun way to spice up your Friday night.

One of the things that I was dying to try was the Creme Brulee Cart.  I have had and tried many creme brulees, but the reason why this one intrigued me is because it was a Nutella strawberry creme brulee....talk about yum =)  It was so delicious and I could not help it, but I wanted more.  So I decided to recreate a version of the Nutella creme brulee at home.  This is a very simple, quick, easy and VERY decadent recipe that takes your basic creme brulee recipe  and takes it up a notch. 

 

Deconstructed Samosa

Spicy Shrimp

Ingredients:

• 4 cups Heavy Cream
• 6 Eggs (yolks, separated)
• ½ cup Superfine Sugar (with a few tbsps for dusting)
• Vanilla Bean or 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
• ¼ cup Nutella (Optional)
• ¼ cup Dark Chocolate
• Strawberries (Optional)

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. Heat cream and vanilla in a saucepan on medium heat until it starts to boil.
3. Remove saucepan from heat ~10 minutes
4. In another bowl separate the eggs yolks.  
5. Add sugar to egg yolks and whisk.
6. Temper the egg mixture by adding a little of the warm cream to the mixture at a time.
7. (Optional) Once all the cream is added, add the Nutella and chocolate chips, whisk well.
8. Ladle the cream mixture into ramekins.
9. Place the ramekins in a roasting pan or large cake pan.
10. Place pan in the oven and fill the pan with water until it reaches ½ ways up the sides of the ramekins (quick tip: add water for the water bath after the pan is placed on an oven rack to avoid splashing and heavy lifting).
11. Bake for 40-45 minutes (or until the creme sets).
12. Remove pan from oven.
13. Remove ramekins from pan and allow to cool.
14. Once ramekins are cool, refrigerate for 2+ hours.
15. Remove creme brulee from refrigerator 20 minutes before ready to serve.
16. Dust the creme brulee with a light layer superfine sugar.
17. Using a creme brulee torch, melt the sugar until it forms a hard top.
18. (Optional) Garnish with strawberries.
19. Serve and enjoy.

Nutella Creme Brulee

Classic Creme Brulee

Creme Brulee You Tube Video

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