Mango and Honey Flan

Desserts and Pastries — By Ben on 31 March 2009

It’s been a while since the last time I posted a dessert on this blog and that’s because I haven’t been eating many lately. With speedo season rapidly approaching I need to make sure to be in excellent shape to wear my new swimsuit, LOL. Yeah, call me vain, but if I don’t take care of myself, nobody else is going to, right? :-p

Anyway, I an finally starting to see mangoes up here in Ohio and I couldn’t resist to buy some on my last trip to the store. I used most of them for my breakfast bombas and fruit salads but I really wanted to use one to experiment with a new flan flavor. The result was the beautiful flan you see in these pictures.

Mango and Honey Flan

The Ingredients:

1 14oz can condensed milk

1 16oz can evaporated milk

1 large mango (click here for a post on how to cut a mango)

4 oz cream cheese

1 TBSP vanilla extract

4 eggs

1/2 cup honey

The How-To:

Pre-heat oven to 350°F

Slightly heat a 10″ round baking pan and pour honey. Swirl the pan to cover sides and bottom with the honey.

Blend the rest of the ingredients together and pour into the pan.

Pour about 1″ of water into a larger pan, 11 or 12″, and put the smaller one into it (bain marie). Cover with foil aluminum paper.

Bake for 60 minutes, or until a tooth pick comes out clean.

Put the baking pan on a wire rack and let it cool for at least 1 hour. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before unmolding.

To unmold, put a plate on top of the pan facing down and flip the pan over and slide it off.

The afterthoughts:

Flans are some of my favorite desserts to make because they are fast and easy to make and delicious treats. Mango and honey were a great combination for this one and I don’t think there’s anything I’d change.

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¡Buen provecho!

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Ben

grew up around food. His family owned a restaurant in Mexico City and he spent a big deal of his childhood helping and learning after school the art of creating delicious dishes from simple ingredients. He created this blog to share his kitchen adventures with the world.

(36) Readers Comments

Andrea
March 31, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Oh, you are singing my tune. What a beautiful flan!

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Natasha - 5 Star foodie
March 31, 2009 at 1:31 pm

How pretty – and I love the mango flavor!

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Hélène
March 31, 2009 at 1:46 pm

That flan is probably hard to resist. What a great picture.

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Gera @ SweetsFoods
March 31, 2009 at 2:52 pm

Wow Ben shocked for the beautiful photo!! Love the normal flan but must be really gorgeous with mango

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MyKitchenInHalfCups
March 31, 2009 at 3:53 pm

Oh . . . I think you could win my heart with this one!

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recipes2share
March 31, 2009 at 3:57 pm

OOHH! It is my exercise class this evening…living to regret all this cooking!!

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Esi
March 31, 2009 at 4:35 pm

I’m not a big flan eater, but this has two of my favorite things (mango and honey)….hope the speedo training is going well

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Peter G
March 31, 2009 at 5:09 pm

I adore both those flavours of honey and mango…beautifully combined in this flan. “Speedo” season is an interesting time to look forward to Ben!…LOL

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maria
March 31, 2009 at 5:39 pm

I cannot tell you just how much I adore flan and the Greek version, crema caramele. Probably my favorite dessert ever. I still remember my 6th grade class trip to a Colombian restaurant in Queens with the fellow students from my Spanish class–it was the first time I ever tried flan and I fell in love it with it immediately. There is a distinctly different taste to flan than the Greek version.
The flavors of your Mango and honey flan sound amazing.

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