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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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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Soma
March 31, 2009 at 9:22 pm

I do not know how i can get speedo ready with this:-) if i lay my hands on this even u won’t get a share. I love flans, mangoes just ROCK!!!! What a gorgeous picture.

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Jude
April 1, 2009 at 1:14 am

I wouldn’t wear a speedo even in my own bathtub, but to each their own I guess
Can’t tell you how excited I am to try this recipe out.

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MeetaK
April 1, 2009 at 1:18 am

Oh boy I am loving this! Honey and mango in a panna cotta? Ben I think I do want to marry you LOL

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Micaela | Striving Green
April 1, 2009 at 8:56 am

That looks absolutely beautiful. Anything with mangoes gets my attention.

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kat
April 1, 2009 at 9:20 am

What a beautiful flan!

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Simone (junglefrog)
April 2, 2009 at 1:12 am

This looks beautiful Ben! I absolutely love mango’s but it’s still a bit too early here for them… I will have to wait a while!

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vickyta
April 2, 2009 at 1:56 am

Thank you Ben, for your response to my question. I love your flan, since I’m on a diet I’m going to make it for my husband, lovely. Thank you again

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joan nova
April 2, 2009 at 10:48 am

looks fabuloso!!

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Bellini Valli
April 2, 2009 at 3:09 pm

This would be a perfect way to try those mangos Ben:D

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Sam
April 3, 2009 at 2:23 am

That looks amazing!

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Sophie
April 4, 2009 at 3:29 pm

MMMMMM…Ben!! You have made my evening!! It looks so delicious!!! I love mango!!

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Cynthia
April 6, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Oh Ben, this is bookmarked and I’ll definitely be making it. Mangoes and blossoms are already on the trees here.

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Kevin
April 7, 2009 at 9:20 pm

This mango flan looks and sounds so good!

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Aparna
April 9, 2009 at 5:25 am

Looks gorgeous. Love that colour and with the mango season just beginning here, can’t wait to try out all those mango desserts.

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Ashley
April 29, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Okay when I saw the picture I thought yummm refreshing mango dessert! But then I saw it has condensed milk AND cream cheese. I have to make this.

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Teresa
May 5, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Hola Chulo. Came by to say hi and wish you a happy Cinco de Mayo. This Mango Flan is to die for. I’ll be trying this recipe for sure. Gracias querido.

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Kaitlin
May 6, 2009 at 10:26 am

Mango and honey – such a tempting combination. And this flan looks lovely!

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Leela@SheSimmers
May 8, 2009 at 1:59 pm

I have a go-to recipe that calls for evaporated milk, condensed milk, cream cheese and eggs just like this one, except without the mango. This looks really good, Ben.

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Ana Powell
May 9, 2009 at 10:17 am

Hi Ben
Just to let you know that I cooked your lovely mango and honey flan and we all loved it.
Thanks for this great recipe, I have posted my flan on Magic Flavours.
Take care and have a great weekend x

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Jen
May 14, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Wow! That flan looks fab!

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Sudha
May 27, 2009 at 2:40 am

Hi Ben,
Thx for dropping by my blog. The mango flan looks yummy, wish I could have a slice!

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Tangled Noodle
June 8, 2009 at 10:01 pm

This is such an awesome recipe! I love flan but the only variation I’ve done so far is to add coconut milk – mango sounds even better. Can’t wait to try this out!

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Maria
May 26, 2011 at 11:12 am

Gorgeous! I love the flavors too!

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Olga @ MangoTomato
May 26, 2011 at 11:14 am

this looks amazing! what's not to like? condensed milk and mango! YUM. I've never made flan…perhaps need to change it!

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Sasha
July 12, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Ive never made anything like this but it looks so easy and with such delicious results I feel i have been majorly missing out!! Hope to give this a try sometime soon, gorgeous

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