crème caramel

British  

noun

1. Also called: caramel cream.  a dessert made of eggs, sugar, milk, etc, topped with caramel

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Example Sentences

His family would dine on meat, falafel, beans, savory fried pastries and occasionally store-bought crème caramel.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2024

The show is starkly anti-interpersonal drama, focusing instead, on the skills and quirks of its contestants and such high-stakes questions as whether the caramel on the crème caramel has successfully formed.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2018

This Chardonnay is deep, with a complex mélange of scents, crème caramel, crisp apple, pear and nougat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2017

But, thanks to “The Gourmet Cookbook,” Evelyn began to cook chicken Marengo and crème caramel; before long, my mother herself was in the kitchen, whipping up Chinese eggrolls from scratch.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 6, 2006

For a moment Giuseppi Antonio Tolmenicino lay inert, then he slowly sat up and looked about him, mechanically picking whitebait out of his hair, and removing a crème caramel from the inside of his waistcoat.

From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George