crème caramel

Noun

crème caramel (countable and uncountable, plural crème caramels or crèmes caramel or crèmes caramels)

1. A baked custard with a soft caramel top.
   • Remember the bottles of wine, the pastas, crèmes caramels, breads, sweet butter, eggs Benedict, moules marinières, peaches, coffee, sausage, tender chicken, honey, salad greens, shrimp, chocolate.1996, Joanna Frueh, “Pythia”, in Erotic Faculties, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 199
   • Twice in December we had dinner alone together, and once we stayed until we were politely asked to leave the Hayes Street Grill, after drinking a good six glasses of amaretto and eating a large number of shared crèmes caramels.1997, Kim Chernin, My Life as a Boy, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 45

   Synonyms:

   flan, leche flan