Get Crackin' creme brulee popping up soon in Canberra

Is there really anything more satisfying than the good crack of a creme brulee?

Serving up nothing but the custard desserts with the hard toffee tops, Get Crackin' Creme Brulee will be popping up soon as a stall at markets around Canberra.

Owners Craig Ebeling and Ashleigh Gleeson run events company Damsel & Sprout by day, and the business is a passion project, particularly for Ebeling who was a chef for 10 years and was keen to get back into the kitchen.

"Everyone loves creme brulee but people are kind of a bit afraid to cook them at home," he said.

"It's a baked custard, it can go wrong pretty easily, you can curdle if you get it too hot or all the issues that can happen with baking a custard and

Then obviously the fire side of things - people aren't keen on having blow torches in the house. So I thought why not provide that for people?"

Get Crackin' will pop up for the first time as a stall at street food festival The Forage on October 21, with creme brulees torched to order.

There will be two flavours available - standard vanilla bean and coffee - which were the two clear favourites through their rigorous product testing on (very lucky) friends and family.

Being a takeaway business, the two biggest challenges were making a toffee that lasted the distance, and then finding disposable spoons that could stand up to said toffee.

"It probably took two or three months to work on a sugar that will actually last, cause once you torch the sugar it usually only lasts about an hour. The one I've come up with will last eight hours in the fridge, so if you don't want to eat it at the time, you can take it home," he said.

"I've also tried several different types of spoons. We're using recycled wooden spoons, so they crack really well without breaking. And that was the issue we had was when you cracked through it, the plastic spoons were breaking.

"But you need to get that right, because cracking that toffee is the best part."

To keep an eye on where they're popping up, follow them on Instagram @get_crackin_creme_brulee