BHA & BHT Free Caramel Custard

Silky, golden, and deeply satisfying, this classic caramel custard is the kind of dessert that feels like it came straight from a fine restaurant — yet it's entirely made from scratch in your own kitchen. For anyone avoiding BHA and BHT, store-bought puddings and custard mixes are often a minefield of synthetic preservatives hiding in the ingredient list, so making this from whole milk, eggs, and plain granulated sugar is a genuinely clean alternative. The caramel is built from just sugar and water, cooked down to a rich amber before being poured into the ramekins, and the custard itself is nothing but eggs, milk, sugar, and a pinch of salt — straightforward ingredients with nowhere for additives to hide. A gentle water bath in the oven keeps the texture impossibly smooth and trembling, and after a few hours in the fridge it sets into that perfect slow-wobble consistency that signals a truly great custard. When you invert each ramekin onto a plate, the caramel cascades down the sides in a glossy, bittersweet sauce that makes the whole thing look stunning with zero extra effort. It's an elegant, preservative-free dessert that proves simple ingredients, handled with care, are all you ever really need.

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