Southern Living Cheesecake Flan

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 3 slices bread, crusts removed
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 (8 ounce) carton mascarpone cheese (1 cup)
• 1 cup evaporated milk
• 2/3 cup water
• 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 sprinkle sugar in a heavy skillet. cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until sugar melts and turns light brown.
• 2 remove from heat. quickly pour hot caramel into a 9" round cakepan, tilting to coat bottom; set pan aside. (caramel will harden and crack).
• 3 combine eggs and remaining 7 ingredients in a large food processor or blender. process just until smooth, stopping once to scrape down sides.
• 4 pour custard mixture over the caramel syrup in cake pan.
• 5 place cakepan in a large shallow pan. cover cakepan with aluminum foil.
• 6 add hot water to shallow pan to depth of 1".
• 7 bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes or until knife inserted off center comes out clean. (center should still be slightly liquid; flan will finish cooking as it cools).
• 8 remove cakepan from water bath; cool flan completely on a wire rack (while still in cakepan).
• 9 cover and chill for several hours or overnight. loosen edges of flan with a spatula and invert flan onto a rimmed serving plate, letting caramel sauce drizzle over the top.