Flan de Queso (Cream Cheese Flan). This smooth cream cheese flan topped with a golden brown caramel is an elegant dessert that can be baked and chilled until serving.. Creamy, rich and delicious, the flan de queso or cream cheese flan makes a great and quick dessert for a scrumptious grand finale of a dinner with friends or family. In my opinion, flan is one of the best desserts of Mexico besides the rice pudding, of course.

Puerto Rican Flan de Queso: a rich and creamy cheesecake-like baked custard dessert that's not too sweet thanks to the slight tang of cream cheese. As if that wasn't enough, the entire flan is swimming in a pool of shimmering sugar caramel sauce! Beat cream cheese in a large bowl with a mixer at medium-high speed until soft. You can have Flan de Queso (Cream Cheese Flan) using 5 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Flan de Queso (Cream Cheese Flan)

1. Prepare 1 (8 oz) of cream cheese.
2. Prepare 4 of eggs.
3. It's 1 can of sweetened condensed milk (about 14oz).
4. Prepare 1 can of evaporated milk (about 12 oz).
5. It's 3/4 cup of sugar.

Add condensed milk, evaporated milk and vanilla; mix until combined. Beat cream cheese in a large bowl with a mixer at medium-high speed until soft. Add condensed milk, evaporated milk and vanilla; mix until combined. This cream cheese flan tastes like flan meets cheesecake - all topped with a sweet caramel sauce.

Flan de Queso (Cream Cheese Flan) instructions

1. Carmalize sugar over low heat in saucepan.
2. Once browned immediately pour caramelized sugar into a 9 in baking dish/pan (making sure to get on sides of pan).
3. Blend cream cheese, eggs, sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk until there are no clumps.
4. Pour mixture into pan with caramelized sugar.
5. Place baking pan with caramelized sugar into a bigger baking pan, pour enough water covering 3/4 of the 9in pan.
6. For a more firm texture securely cover flan with aluminum foil***.
7. Bake flan de queso for about an hour to an hour and a half (or until toothpick comes out clean when placed in center of flan) @ 350 degrees..
8. Take pans out of oven. Remove the 9in pan from the pan with water and let flan cool at room temperature for about 45min to an hour.
9. Cover pan with aluminum and place flan de queso in refrigerator. Leave for 4 hours or overnight..
10. After leaving in the refrigerator, remove the aluminum and invert flan de queso onto a serving plate.

Custards don't get a lot of attention these days. Beat cream cheese in a large bowl with a mixer at medium-high speed until soft. Add condensed milk, evaporated milk, coconut cream, sugar and vanilla; mix until combined. Flan is a dessert found in many countries, but in Spanish cultures it's the quintessential dessert. Flan can come in various flavors, from coffee to coconut, but one of my favorites is flan de queso or cheese flan.