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Home » Dishes » Desserts » Custard » Pots de Crème

Pots de Crème

Pots de Crème

Pots de Crème. © Jamie Anne / flickr.com / 2011/ CC BY-ND 2.0

Pots de crème refers to both a custard dessert and the traditional small pots with lids that you serve the custard in.

The custard is often flavoured with vanilla or chocolate.

The custard is a just barely firm baked custard. The proportions are usually 1 egg plus 5 egg yolks per ¾ litre (24 oz / 3 cups) of milk.

The custard mixture is put into the pots de crème cups, and the cups baked in a water bath. The pots are covered with their lids during baking to stop a skin from forming on top of the custard. The cooking time is about 20 minutes.

The traditional pots de crème cups usually are very small, only holding about 100 ml (3 oz.) They have a single handle on the side. The lids also have something on top that acts as a handle to make it easy to lift them off.

Classic pots de crème set

Classic pots de crème set. © Stanzilla / wikimedia / 2012 / CC0 1.0

Now, ‘colloquially’, many different types of small dishes are used to serve ‘pots de crème’ in. Modern ones tend to have no handles, and be straight-sided and clean in their design; they may also have no lid. By default, this is often a ramekin, which serves a dual purpose as also being multi-use.

The “crème” is made in something else and the “pots” merely used for serving.

Pot de crème chocolat

Pot de crème chocolat. © Ralph Daily / flickr.com / 2014 / CC BY 2.0

Pot de crème in mason jars

Pot de crème served in 125 ml (4 oz /1/2 cup) mason jars. © Edsel Little / flickr.com / 2012 / CC BY-SA 2.0

There are also now commercial candy-like takes on the theme.

Cadbury pots of cream

Cadbury pots of cream. © David Woo / flickr.com / 2013 / CC BY-ND 2.0

See also: Pots de Crème Day

Literature & Lore

The traditional special lidded pots are very collectible now.

Language Notes

The French don’t have a separate word for custard, so they call it crème.

Other names

French: Pots de Crème

This page first published: Sep 5, 2004 · Updated: Dec 13, 2020.

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