Creme Caramel Custard..for SCHOOL!?

[maps]

My son just brought home a form that states I need to make a dessert for the French dinner fund raiser on Wed night. The teacher sent home a sheet with the recipe.

It talks about making the caramel syrup, using 1/2 dozen eggs and 3 cups of milk and it all goes in individual ramekin bowls (who owns these??)

All of this for 8 servings.

Does anyone else feel this is too much too ask--mind you, I work FT, have mulitple after school activities to get to, on top of dinner, cleaning the house....

I'm thinking of not making anything but feel too guilty so what would you send in instead?

Thanks

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[marlynnp]

caramel jello pudding snacks and a note about you are unable to fulfill last minute requests but would be happy to help in the future provided you are given 10 days notice.

 

[scrapquitler]

I would be talking to my son and finding out just HOW LONG AGO did he volunteer me for this and why did he wait until the last minute to tell me about it? I bet he signed up weeks ago and just forgot to tell you.

I'd go to Stop and Shop and buy the 'flan custard deserts' in the pudding section of the dairy case.

 

[Hannathy]

French deserts are expensive! Yep sounds like a few of the things we have had to make in the past for French. What is the fundraiser for? will your son benefit? and who picked what to make? did your son volunteer you? My friends son volunteered her to make something similar one time. Are they selling french deserts at an international food fair?

If you truly aren't going to participate I would hope you would send a note in Tomorrow so they teacher is aware and isn't stuck on Wednesday when they don't have your contribution.

If they are selling or serving legitimate French desert then they do not want jello cups! It would not be appropriate.

 

[maps]

No, this time it is not my son's fault (not something I normally say!). The recipe came home on Thurs I but did not look at it until Sunday. I like the idea about the flan custard desserts--never heard of such a thing. Thanks!

 

[tw1nsmom]

How old is your son? Did he volunteer you for this? If he did and he's in high school I would go to Walmart, buy disposable tin ramekins, sugar, milk, eggs and hand it over to him to do.

If he didn't volunteer to do this and it really is a last minute request, i would do what the previous poster said and just decline.

 

[Hannathy]

No, this time it is not my son's fault (not something I normally say!). The recipe came home on Thurs I but did not look at it until Sunday. I like the idea about the flan custard desserts--never heard of such a thing. Thanks!

But Flan is not French!!!!

I guess I just don't understand if you volunteered and now you don't want to do it? That isn't fair to the teacher or the class if they are raising money for something. I don't get why can't you make it?

If you agreed to do this you should do what you agreed to or you shouldn't have volunteered.

 

[poohbear227]

No, this time it is not my son's fault (not something I normally say!). The recipe came home on Thurs I but did not look at it until Sunday. I like the idea about the flan custard desserts--never heard of such a thing. Thanks!

I wouldn't blame the school for being that last minute, if you said it came home on Thursday (almost a weeks notice), but that does seem kinda extravagant and a little pushy that they directed you to make this thing, instead of giving you a few choices. I would either volunteer your son to come and help you prepare it or go for the prepackaged flan-no one will know the difference anyways!

 

[candykisses]

If possible I would make the dessert.

This would happen every year in my son's French Class. The teacher would have the students pull a piece of paper from a bowl, so they didn't know what they had to bring in. One year I had to make a croquembouche. Transporting it was harder than making it.

 

[marlynnp]

No, this time it is not my son's fault (not something I normally say!). The recipe came home on Thurs I but did not look at it until Sunday. I like the idea about the flan custard desserts--never heard of such a thing. Thanks!

okay, so he didn't just bring it home? A weeks notice - I would make it. My requirement is that I should always know prior to my weekly shopping trip.

 

[maps]

The fundraiser is for the 8th grade trip to Quebec. My son is in 5th grade.
For my daughter, I was asked to bring in 2 bottles of apple juice. For my son, the request was dessert. The issue is I don't have ramekin cups and don't want to go out and buy it for this. Nor do I have the hour that it will take to make the recipe.

 

[Carnie]

Maybe it's me.... but shouldn't these sort of projects be made by THE KIDS?

I don't get why this stuff gets shoved on the parents.

 

[Hannathy]

Then call the teacher and tell her you don't want to make this and ask for another French recipe or if you could bring in something you can buy.
In the future you should make it clear that you only want to send in things you can buy, it isn't fair to the organizers to have people change their minds after volunteering. maybe someone else would have been perfectly happy making this.

Next time you should look at the recipe earlier if you have limits to what you will make.

 

[maps]

I can just imagine my 10 year old son making the caramel sauce over low heat and then swirling it on the bottom of the ramekin cups. Then whisking the eggs and milk together and baking it in another pan that has water in it. Lastly, getting the desserts to come out of the cups so the caramel sauce is on top.

How about some nice French brownies?!

 

[rie'smom]

I wouldn't care when the recipe was given. You don't ask someone to make something if they have to go out and buy special serving dishes. I do have ramekins but no way would they be going to school for a fund raiser.
OP, make beignets.

Buy frozen bread dough, break off pieces and deep fry, drain on paper toweling. Put powdered sugar in a paper bag, add a few beignets at a time to coat, set aside coated beignets and repeat until finished.

 

[PRmamiDEdos]

My son just brought home a form that states I need to make a dessert for the French dinner fund raiser on Wed night. The teacher sent home a sheet with the recipe.

It talks about making the caramel syrup, using 1/2 dozen eggs and 3 cups of milk and it all goes in individual ramekin bowls (who owns these??)

All of this for 8 servings.

Does anyone else feel this is too much too ask--mind you, I work FT, have mulitple after school activities to get to, on top of dinner, cleaning the house....

I'm thinking of not making anything but feel too guilty so what would you send in instead?

Thanks

You can use tuna cans for ramekins, just wash them out REALLY WELL. Caramel and tuna do not make for a good French dessert...

caramel jello pudding snacks and a note about you are unable to fulfill last minute requests but would be happy to help in the future provided you are given 10 days notice.

Here's a thought, you know the caramel dipping sauce they sell for apples and such, pour that on the bottom of a ramekin and then put the caramel jello pudding on top, place it in the fridge and let it set. Think anyone would know the difference?

I have seen creme caramel in premade packs of 4 at grocery-near the pudding in fridge case

I dont own any ramkins either

Or you could do this.

I can just imagine my 10 year old son making the caramel sauce over low heat and then swirling it on the bottom of the ramekin cups. Then whisking the eggs and milk together and baking it in another pan that has water in it. Lastly, getting the desserts to come out of the cups so the caramel sauce is on top.

How about some nice French brownies?!

Yeah...I make caramel sauce for flan and it gets HOT!! He can hurt himself if he's not careful. I've been know to have sugar burns during the holidays

French brownies would be petite fours, LOL!!!

 

[krcit]

Then call the teacher and tell her you don't want to make this and ask for another French recipe or if you could bring in something you can buy.
In the future you should make it clear that you only want to send in things you can buy, it isn't fair to the organizers to have people change their minds after volunteering. maybe someone else would have been perfectly happy making this.

Next time you should look at the recipe earlier if you have limits to what you will make.

Did the OP say that she volunteered? I missed it if she did.

 

[liamsaunt]

If you wanted to do the recipe, you could make it in double-lined disposable foil muffin tins rather than individual ceramic ramekins. It's not a hard recipe to make. But, if you don't want to do it and you don't have time, then just make the jello custard flans. Most people won't know the difference.

Or better yet just buy some French desserts from a local bakery. Chocolate croissants will probably sell better than creme caramels anyway, and you don't have to worry about the temperature storage issues that you'd have with the creme caramels.

Candykisses, you made a croquembouche!?! Now that is dedication!

 

[Kathi OD]

The fundraiser is for the 8th grade trip to Quebec. My son is in 5th grade.
For my daughter, I was asked to bring in 2 bottles of apple juice. For my son, the request was dessert. The issue is I don't have ramekin cups and don't want to go out and buy it for this. Nor do I have the hour that it will take to make the recipe.

I can't believe that this wasn't given to an 8th grader. Way too much for a 5th grader, especially when he isn't going to benefit from the fundraiser.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

Sorry, I hate fundraisers which want to force me to do stuff. Just tell me how much money you want and I'm happy to write a check. That recipe would be much more work than I'm willing to do, I'd go to the local bakery and buy eight creme puffs.