The name of this blog is based on my love for flan. It’s no secret I love it and have developed over 40 flavors. I love them all.

But, I realized I hardly feature this amazing latin custard. A mainstay and favorite among all Latin homes, all of my friends and most of my clients, I think it deserves a bit more than the occasional cameo appearance. The ooh’s and ahh’s it receives are great. In fact, so great, I found myself trekking with one of  my pressure cookers last weekend, while visiting NYC for BlogHer and a few other meetings!

Yes, I checked one of my prized pressure cookers on my flight from Atlanta. That friendly apparatus made it with me to a small, itty bitty Manhattan apartment and planted itself on an electric stovetop. I didn’t think I’d really do it, but I did. Up ’til midnight, then up again at 3 am to finish a few different flavored flans for a Friday morning tryst.

Though it all worked out and the flans were a hit, I vowed never to travel with a pressure cooker again. At least not for the time being and unless it’s a hugely paid gig, in which case, the client will have a separate handler for such utensils.

I digress, I know. The truth is that I really want to spend a bit more time and energy into the different flans I make and even taste and feature other chefs’, home cooks, and bakers’ recipes. I think it’d be a great thing to expand my flan ventures outside of my own.

So, a few weeks ago, I got excited when I accidentally received great response to my #FlanFridays hashtag on Twitter! What an unsuspecting hit! Since then, I’ve been featuring a flan every Friday with either a picture or  a link to a flan post here on the blog.

Score.

And, for this 1st #FlanFriday on Flanboyant Eats, I bring to you a {NOT} so one-of-a-kind flavor. It just so happens a  friend in Atlanta recently asked me to make her this particular flavor for her birthday. I did it and unfortunately we couldn’t meet up in time for her dinner party.

Which means some other friends and I devoured it. And now I have to make said friend another one.

Gladly so.

Bite and enjoy.

Can you possibly guess the flavor!?

Clue: a very popular flavor for baked goodies this year.

SALTED CARAMEL! Yes, a wonderful juxtaposition of sweet & salty. It was so divine and a perfect new flavor to add to my repertoire. Do enjoy!