How To Make Healthier Crema de Fruta
This Crema de Fruta is a sweet Filipino cake, with layers of ladyfingers, fruits, and gelatin. It’s made healthier with less sugar for a guilt-free treat!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½cups2% evaporated milk
- 1½cups2% milk
- ¾cupwhite sugar
- ½cupwater
- ¼cupall purpose flour
- 5egg yolks
- 1¼cupswater
- 16ozfruit cocktail in heavy syrup,(1 can), syrup drained and reserved
- 3ozunflavored gelatin,(3 packages)
- 2tbsplemon juice,or to taste
- 10.6ozladyfingers,(2 packages)
Instructions
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Combine the evaporated milk, milk, sugar, ½ cup water, flour, and egg yolks in a tempered glass bowl.
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Fill a large bowl with ice water, creating an ice bath.
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Place the milk mixture in a large saucepan of boiling water, then cook, whisking constantly, for 10 to 15 minutes until custard thickens and reaches a temperature of 170 degrees F. Transfer the bowl to the ice bath to cool the custard.
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Mix 1¼ cup of water, 1 cup of heavy syrup from fruit cocktail, gelatin, and lemon juice together in a separate saucepan over medium heat.
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Cook and stir for 10 to 12 minutes until gelatin dissolves.
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Refrigerate the gelatin mixture for 30 minutes until cooled.
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Layer ladyfingers in the bottom of a deep 9×13-inch dish, then top with a custard layer and fruit cocktail layer. Repeat layering with the remaining ingredients, ending with gelatin mixture covering the last fruit layer.
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Refrigerate for 8 hours to overnight until set.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 311.91kcal
- Fat: 8.18g
- Saturated Fat: 3.76g
- Trans Fat: 0.03g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.02g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.86g
- Carbohydrates: 44.90g
- Fiber: 0.85g
- Sugar: 20.74g
- Protein: 15.81g
- Cholesterol: 153.36mg
- Sodium: 124.61mg
- Calcium: 175.29mg
- Potassium: 250.60mg
- Iron: 1.72mg
- Vitamin A: 130.52µg
- Vitamin C: 2.83mg
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