Name: Caramel Chomeur
Yield: Makes 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups whole milk; 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 3/4 cup all purpose flour; 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 2 large eggs; 1/4 cup sugar; 1 1/2 cups (packed) golden brown sugar; 2 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter, diced; Vanilla ice cream

"My husband and I recently went to Chez Mimi in nearby Santa Monica," writes Randi Fine of Sherman Oaks, California. "We shared a luscious dessert called caramel chomeur, a cake baked atop caramel sauce and served with vanilla ice cream. I've searched my cookbooks, but I can't find a recipe close to it."

Chef Mimi Hebert tells us that this dessert from the Great Depression era was called chomeur (from the French word for "unemployed") because it was inexpensive to make.

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