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Flan (pie) A flan, in British cuisine, is an egg-based dish with an open, rimmed pastry or sponge base containing a sweet or savoury filling. Examples are bacon and egg flan and custard tart. History Flan is known in Roman cuisine. It was often a sav ...

, an open sweet or savoury tart, the most common UK meaning *

Flan cake Flan cake, also known as leche flan cake or crème caramel cake, is a Filipino chiffon or sponge cake ('' mamón'') baked with a layer of leche flan (crème caramel) on top and drizzled with caramel syrup. It is sometimes known as "custard cak ...

, a Filipino cake topped with crème caramel and caramel syrup *Flan de leche or ''

crème caramel Crème caramel (), flan, caramel pudding or caramel custard is a custard dessert with a layer of clear caramel sauce. History The origin of crème caramel (also known originally as flan) can be traced all the way back to the Roman Empire. O ...

'', a custard dessert with clear caramel sauce, the most common US meaning *Flan or

planchet A planchet is a round metal disk that is ready to be struck as a coin. An older word for planchet is flan. They are also referred to as blanks. History The preparation of the flan or planchet has varied over the years. In ancient times, the f ...

, a blank metal disk to be struck as a coin

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Flans Flans are an all-female Mexican music group, which enjoyed popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Its members were the singers Ivonne Margarita Guevara García, Ilse María Olivo Schweinfurth and Irma Angélica Hernández Ochoa. Th ...

, a Mexican vocal trio *Flan, a race in the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting

Flanaess Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for ''Dungeons & Dragons''—Dave Arneson ...

* ''Flan'' (album), a 1992 album by Dogbowl

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