flans

Baked egg desserts

Flans is the plural of flan, a baked custard dessert with a caramel topping, popular in Spanish and Latin American cuisines.

The word also refers to open pastry tarts with sweet or savory fillings, common in French and British cooking: The bakery displayed fruit flans in the window.

In metalworking, flans are blank metal discs ready to be stamped into coins.

dessert

custard

Cooked egg-milk mixture

creamy · eggs · vanilla · unmolded · silky · dulce de leche · creme caramel · pudding · jiggly · smooth

pastry

tart

Sharp-flavored small pie

baking · quiche · savory · dough · fruit · galette · buttery · crimped · edges · pan

metalworking

disc

Flat circular object

metal · forging · pressing · round · flat · minting · punching · die · shaped · rim

Categories
Opposites
dessert texture

flansbiscotti

Crunchy Italian almond cookies

crackers · cookies · meringues · shortbread · brittle

dessert structure

flansturnovers

Possession changes or pastries

empanadas · strudels · Pop-Tarts · calzones · layer cakes

preparation method

flansice cream

Churned frozen dairy dessert

gelato · sorbet · frozen custard · popsicles · churros

Phrases
Family

flannel, flan

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G