Guava Flan

Ingredients:

• 2 cups sugar divided
• 1 12 ounce can evaporated milk
• 1 8 ounce package Philadelphia Cream Cheese cut up softened
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 dash salt
• 1/2 cup guava paste cut into small pieces

Steps:

• PREHEAT oven to 350F Place 1 cup of the sugar in small heavy saucepan; cook on medium heat until sugar is melted and deep golden brown stirring constantly with wooden spoon This should take about 10 minutes Remove from heat Immediately pour into 9-inch round baking pan; tilt pan to evenly cover bottom of pan with syrup Set aside
• PLACE milk and cream cheese in blender; cover Blend until smooth Add remaining 1 cup sugar the eggs vanilla and salt; cover Blend just until smooth; add guava paste and pour into prepared baking pan I found that sprinkling the cubes of guava paste across the top of the raw custard helped to keep them from globbing up in the middle- Next time I might try blending the guava paste in blender with the rest of the ingredients Place filled baking pan in larger baking pan; add enough hot water to larger pan to come halfway up side of smaller pan
• BAKE 50 minute to 1 hour or until knife inserted near center comes out clean Cool Carefully remove flan from water Cool on wire rack
• REFRIGERATE several hours or unti chilled When ready to serve invert pan onto serving plate to unmold flan Some of the guava cubes stuck to the caramel and I just took them off with a fork and stuck them back in the top of the flan where they came from Store any leftovers in refrigerator