5 Large Eggs (1 whole egg, and 4 yolks)
1/2 cup sugar, plus a few spoon-fulls for each serving
3 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Boil water in a tea kettle and begin heating cream in a sauce pan until it's too hot to touch, not boiling though. Mix eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl until the sugar is dissolved.
Once creme is heated and eggs and sugar mixed, whisk and very slowly add the cream. This will gradually heat the egg mixture to the same temperature. Add vanilla then pour into small oven safe bowls or tins.
Place containers into deep baking pan and place on rack in oven, but before closing the door, add water from tea kettle to the baking pan taking care not to get any in the custard. Bake for 30-45 minutes.
Remove from the oven and place in the refrigerator until set. Once set, sprinkle sugar evenly on top and use a blow torch or broil in the oven. And your through ^^

Just learned this recipe from JoAnne's Kitchen.