This is the BEST pastry cream recipe. It's rich and creamy, and can be baked or frozen. Includes 16 popular recipes that use pastry cream.
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Make 16 Desserts with this One Pastry Cream Recipe
This is my absolute FAVORITE, tried and true recipe for silky smooth, incredibly rich, and creamy Pastry Cream. It's simple to make, remarkably stable, and comes out perfect every time. It's rich and thick enough to use as a filling for cream pies, layer cakes, and layered pastries like the classic Napoleon dessert. It's also creamy enough to easily pipe into pastries like eclairs and cream puffs.
Sheets of puff pastry layered with vanilla pastry cream. The classic French Napoleon (Mille Feuille) is one of the most delicious desserts you can …
This Cannoli Napoleon marries two delicious desserts, the Italian Cannoli and the French Napoleon, into one delicious, flaky, creamy pastry.
This soft, fluffy 2-layer coconut cake is filled with a thick layer of coconut pastry cream. It's so rich and creamy it melts in your mouth.
The ultimate rich and creamy Coconut Cream Pie, made with silky pastry cream, toasted coconut, and a buttery, crispy Toasted Almond Crust.
This Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie includes layers of chocolate pastry cream, vanilla rum custard, bananas & whipped cream in a buttery vanilla wafer …
This Chocolate Cream Pie is made with chocolate pastry cream and a crispy toasted almond crust. It's extra creamy and packed with chocolate!
This Olive Oil Cake is filled with a thick layer of lemon mascarpone pastry cream. It's moist and flavorful, with a tender crumb that’s not overly …
With vanilla pastry cream and strawberry pie filling inside a buttery pastry, this pie is rich, creamy, and bursting with strawberry flavor.
This delicious doughnut recipe is versatile & simple. Doughnuts rise in the refrigerator overnight. All you have to do in the morning is cook them.
Tender yeast raised doughnut holes are filled with salted caramel pastry cream and drizzled with salted caramel sauce.
This guide to making profiteroles includes step-by-step photos and instructions, sweet and savory filling ideas, and how to store and freeze …
How to make perfect chocolate eclairs. Buttery logs of pastry filled with luscious vanilla pastry cream & topped with rich chocolate glaze.
Creamy amaretto custard in flaky pastry with plump juicy blackberries. Every part of these gorgeous Custard Fruit Tarts can be made in advance.
These buttery little hand pies are filled with almond pastry cream and apple butter. They are flaky, creamy, & packed with warm apple flavor.
This crepe cake includes layer upon layer of buttery crepes, vanilla pastry cream, fresh peaches and whipped cream.
