Crème brûlée

I love to eat the stuff, and enjoy the stuff that I make. Here's the recipe that I've been using for a couple of years.

Makes 6:

•  2.25 cups of cream
• 1.5 tsp vanilla (or 1 bean)
• 6 eggs yokes
• 0.75 cups sugar

Makes 8:

• 3 cups cream
• 2 tsp vanilla (or 1 bean)
• 1 tsp orange zest (optional)
• 8 egg yokes
• 1 cup sugar

Instructions:

• preheat oven to 325 F
• Split and scrape the vanilla bean into cream and bring to gentle boil. Take off heat and transfer to measuring cup for pouring.
• In a double boiler boil, whisk eggs and sugar.
• Using the double boiler, slowly pour in cream while whisking.
• Transfer to ramekins and place into hot water bath
• Bake for 40 ish minutes - until just set
• Let cool
• Top with sugar, tap off excess and then use blow torch to caramelize.