Place the puff pastry base: Cut a disk of puff pastry the same size as the bottom of the mold and carefully place it inside.

Flan Patissier (center) is one of three custard-based, flan-borne pastries currently available at Francois Payard Bakery on Houston Street. When former Daniel pastry chef Francois Payard abandoned ...

Ingredients. Flan. 3 cups (720 g) whole milk; 1 cup (250 g) whipping cream; 1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped; 4 large eggs, plus 1 yolk; 3/4 cup (150 g) granulated sugar; 8 tbsp (70 g ...