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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 sa ...

, 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. Orig ...

'', 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 ...

, 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 Arnes ...

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

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