Flan is one of those desserts that always seems difficult to make—caramel and custards, eek!—but it’s really quite easy. The silky custard is sweet, slightly jiggly and full of caramel ...

“Smelling the vanilla takes me back to my abuelita’s house; she would make lots of desserts for us with that amazing vanilla.” Flan, or Neapolitan flan, is a dessert that Mexico adopted as ...