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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Dessert Recipes / Pudding Recipes / Crème Brûlée: Creamy, Decadent and … Healthy!

Crème Brûlée: Creamy, Decadent and … Healthy!

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Healthy, low sugar crème brûlée recipe using only four whole ingredients as traditionally practiced for creamy decadence loaded with healthy fats.

creme brulee in a ramekin dish

It’s Friday afternoon. You’ve just looked at the calendar and suddenly realized that your vegetarian friends of many years are coming to dinner.

No worries. Just serve a nice veggie stir fry cooked in store-bought or homemade ghee or expeller-pressed coconut oil and whip up creme brulee for dessert. You won’t miss having meat with the main meal at all because creme brulee is loaded with healthy fats that will satiate you and your guests completely without an overload of sugar that will leave you groggy the next morning.

Even better, you can use up that quart of sour raw cream in the back of the fridge that is just a bit too tart for making homemade ice cream!

Classic Crème brûlée

Creme brulee made the traditional way with full-fat cream and loads of egg yolks is nothing short of creamy decadence, but you can serve it knowing that it is a very healthy ending to your dinner party too.

How so?

Egg yolks and the butterfat in cream are high in the important omega 6 fat called arachidonic acid. Ironic but true. Westerners are so inflammation-ridden from the excessive processed omega-6 fats in their diet but are typically deficient in arachidonic acid. This is one of the most critical omega-6 fats of them all!

11% of the brain is composed of this vital fatty acid. It is also of great importance for healthy, beautiful, sag-resistant skin as it ensures strong cell-to-cell junctures. Arachidonic acid is also critical for the proper development and maintenance of the intestinal tract.

So eat up and enjoy that decadent creme brulee and be sure not to use egg replacer or fake cream in this recipe!

How to Use Leftover Egg Whites

What to do with all the leftover egg whites from making this fabulous dish? Click here for an easy high protein cookie recipe complete with a video how-to! This nut pudding recipe also uses up 6-8 egg whites in a hurry.

Note that egg whites are not healthy to eat raw. In other words, don’t add them to a smoothie!

homemade creme brulee in a bowl on wooden counter
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Traditional Crème Brûlée Recipe

Healthy, low sugar creme brulee recipe using only four whole ingredients as traditionally practiced for creamy decadence that is also loaded with healthy fats.

Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Keyword creamy, easy, healthy
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 8 servings
Calories 460 kcal
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 1 quart heavy cream preferably raw
  • 8 egg yolks preferably pastured
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar or sucanat
  • 1 Tbl vanilla extract

Topping

  • 8 tsp coconut sugar or sucanat

Instructions

  1. Heat cream gently with vanilla but do not let it boil. 

  2. Beat egg yolks with coconut sugar (sucanat may be substituted if desired) until smooth and well blended. Beat vanilla and hot cream into yolk mixture.

  3. Pour into eight 4-inch ramekins or other small, oven-safe dish (about 3/4 cup each). Set dishes in very shallow pans of warm water. Bake 45-60 minutes in a 300-degree oven until custard sets and forms a a crust on top.

  4. Let custards cool, cover lightly with waxed paper and chill 4 hours in the refrigerator.

  5. To serve, sprinkle 1 rounded teaspoon of coconut sugar or sucanat over the top of each. Place under the broiler until the sugar melts, being careful not to burn (it melts very quickly!). Let the ramekins cool and then return to refrigerator until melted sugar forms a crust. Serve very cold.

Nutrition Facts
Traditional Crème Brûlée Recipe
Amount Per Serving (0.75 cup)
Calories 460 Calories from Fat 405
% Daily Value*
Fat 45g69%
Cholesterol 370mg123%
Sodium 48mg2%
Potassium 19mg1%
Carbohydrates 11g4%
Sugar 11g12%
Protein 3g6%
Vitamin A 1100IU22%
Calcium 22mg2%
Iron 0.46mg3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
creme brulee in a white dish on a wooden counter
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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (40)

  1. Christine

    Jul 1, 2013 at 10:56 pm

    This was absolutely fantastic!! I’m right now making it for the second time in a week. Healthy, right? I’ve added cinnamon to see how that turns out. I also half the recipe and put it in a 9″ pie dish. Turns out great at about 40 min.

    One thing I will say is that, given the almost hour baking time, plus a four hour chill, this won’t be something you make on a Friday afternoon for a Friday evening dinner. Unless it’s really early Friday afternoon or you are having a late dessert!

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  2. Fruitful

    Feb 20, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Why the Tide Pods ad on your page? Seems to go against what you teach.

    Reply
  3. HheFan

    Nov 11, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    Love creme brûlée! Looks delicious. Thanks, Sarah!

    Reply
  4. Oana Rusu Tomai via Facebook

    Nov 7, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    Made it a bunch of time with great success

    Reply
  5. Elle

    Nov 7, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    I love this possibility, but I don’t understand why a person would use raw cream, and then bake it at 300 degrees. Wouldn’t that essentially pasteurize it, thereby killing the enzymes and oxidizing the cholesterol? Also, my understanding is that cooking egg yolk creates oxidized cholesterol as well. Yes, if a person is using grass-fed cream and pastured eggs, there are still some nutritional benefits even after cooking in the manner described by the recipe, but calling this dessert “very healthy” seems to be a stretch.

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    • Renee N.

      Nov 7, 2012 at 7:53 pm

      I was thinking the same thing. Why not use low temp pasteurized, organic, pastured cream for this recipe? (There are brands that have the only ingredient as 100% organic pastured cream) It’s a heck of a lot cheaper than raw cream…

      If you’ve got soured raw cream, why not just make some awesome raw butter with it?

      Or if you insist on something with raw cream and egg yolks, why not have egg nog?

  6. Megan

    Nov 7, 2012 at 9:58 am

    how about coconut cream for cream? as I can’t do milk. casin probelm.

    Reply
  7. lara

    Nov 6, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    oh Yum! will be making tonight as it is dessert night on Wednesday.

    Would love to know your vegi stir fry recipe as mine never is great!

    Reply
  8. Sabrina

    Nov 6, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    This will be a perfect dessert to bring to an open house I’m going to this weekend! Thank you!!! The most fun will be telling people that it is healthy!

    Reply
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