Check if this is close to your recipe. It specifies muffin tins so it may be your mold is too big.
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These individual vanilla and rum flavored cakes are a speciality of Southwest France. The cakes take their name from the special, fluted molds they are baked in, cannel=E9 is the French word for fluted. If you don't have the special molds, you can also bake the cakes in a muffin tin.
Pronounced: kahn leh
These need to be started 2 days before you plan to bake them.
INGREDIENTS:
- 3-1/4 cups milk (preferably whole milk) * 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise * 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter * 3 large eggs * 2 Tablespoons dark rum (lke Gosling's) * 2 cups granulated sugar * 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flout * unsalted butter, softened for buttering the molds
PREPARATION: Two days before you plan to serve the cannel=E9s:
1=2E Pour the milk in a saucepan, add the vanilla bean and place the pan over med-high heat.
2=2E Bring the milk to a boil; remove from the heat set aside. Allow the milk to cool to room temperature. When it is at room temperature, cover and place in the refrigerator overnight.
The day before:
3=2E Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
4=2E Whisk the eggs into the vanilla milk. Then whisk in the rum and the warm, melted butter.
5=2E Whisk in the sugar and flour. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
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6=2E Generously butter the 12 molds or 2 muffin tins (these are the regular size tins, each tim will have 6 spaces) and place in the refrigerator until the butter is firm.
7=2E Preheat the oven to 400F.
8=2E Remove the vanilla bean from the batter and re-whisk the batter to mix well. Ladle the batter into the molds or muffin tins. Fill them almost to the top.
9=2E Put the molds or tins on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 50 to 60 minutes. Check on them after about 45 minutes. They should be very dark brown but not black.
- Remove from the oven and turn out of the molds while they are still warm.
To serve:
The cannel=E9s will be dark brown, caramelized and crunchy on the outside and soft and moist on the inside. Serve them for tea, as a dessert, snack or at a brunch. If you're feeling very hedonistic one day, eat them for a special Sunday breakfast treat!