Sentence examples for smooth custard from inspiring English sources

For dessert, pick the crème brûlée, done beautifully, with smooth custard and shatter-worthy topping.

Quiche Lorraine is open-faced and creamy, involving a smooth custard lightly speckled with bits of meaty French bacon.

Instead of the usual crust of burned sugar, here, an intricate birdcage of crystallized caramel perches above the velvety smooth custard.

The house-made crème brûlée, with its pleasantly brittle caramelized top and smooth custard beneath, also upheld the culinary standards of the cooking duo.

I'd like to write that I whipped up a flan according to plan and that it led to a taste memory explosion of silky smooth custard studded with rice, scented with lemon and spice and glistening with amber syrup.

I also like his lemon zest, but I think ground almonds are a step too far: fine in a sponge, here they just weigh down my lovely smooth custard.

Blend together ricotta, chocolate, orange peel, sugar, almond extract and enough milk to make smooth custard-like mixture.

So was the panna cotta; the grainy diced watermelon in its fruit topping, however, was out of place atop the smooth, elegant custard.

But half-and-half yields a smooth, light custard that I grew to enjoy, and which did not make me feel as if I had eaten quite so much.

The more adventurous goat cheese panna cotta, smooth as custard, takes a chance with candied ginger, but thin slices of cooked and pickled beets -- red, yellow and candy-cane -- head off the sweet tendencies of this dish before it turns into a dessert.

Helen echoes my sentiments beautifully when she talks of the "sensual pleasures" of experiencing, in succession, "the light frothy cream, the smooth, velvety custard, the tangy fruit mingling with the bouquet of wine (or sherry or liqueur), and perhaps a touch of almondy crunchiness from ratafias or macaroons, and lastly the sweet, soft but crumbly texture of the sponge or sponge fingers".