Vanilla pastry cream

This vanilla pastry cream recipe is a perfect filling for cream puffs, tarts, pastries, cakes, and other delicious desserts! With step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips you'll be able to make this simple and versatile dessert filling.

Pastry cream—made by heating milk, sugar, eggs, starch, and a flavoring together—is a rich, thick, and creamy custard that's a versatile workhorse in the baker’s kitchen. It's piped into cream puffs and éclairs, spread between the layers of a Boston cream pie, and used as the base filling in fruit tarts. #PastryCream #Baking #FrenchCuisine #SweetTooth #Desserts #SeriousEats

Pastry cream is a delicious pudding-like custard recipe that you never knew you needed! Also called Crème Pâtissière, this French staple is an important part of many desserts, like eclairs and fruit tarts. It is similar to vanilla pudding but much thicker (perfect for piping and filling Bavarian Cream Donuts!) It is made in 10 minutes and uses pantry staples: egg yolks, milk, and cornstarch.

You can easily learn how to make this delicious French pastry cream recipe that is a perfect filling for desserts such as millefeuille, tarts, cakes and choux pastries. It takes almost 10 minutes to prepare this delicious vanilla cream.

Make homemade Pastry Cream in 30 minutes with this easy crème pâtissière recipe. Flavored with real vanilla beans and perfect for piping!

Easy vanilla pastry cream recipe. The best part is the list of ingredients is very short (5 ingredinets), and most of them are easy to find or pantry staples.

Homemade Bavarian Cream Donuts - fluffy, fried donuts with a rich custard and whipped cream filling. Just like Dunkin Donuts, but better with this easy, delicious cream-filled dessert!

In my early cooking years I realized just how important it was to know how to make a velvety vanilla pastry cream. It’s so delicious and versatile.

Rich vanilla pastry cream is the classic filling for cream puffs.

Learn how to make the best vanilla pastry cream for filling desserts! It's perfect for filling cakes, pastries and cookies!

Smooth, rich Vanilla Pastry Cream (aka creme patisserie) is a classic French filling used in many dessert recipes. It's easier to make than you might think and can be used in so many ways!

This easy Pastry Cream recipe, also known as crème pâtissière, is silky, rich and so delicious. Pastry cream is essentially a thick custard that is made using common kitchen ingredients and takes only about 15 minutes to put together. It is perfect for many different fine pastries such as tarts, eclairs, or cream puffs!

Delicious thick and creamy this easy recipe for pastry cream is the perfect filling for pastries and cakes! Vanilla beans make this Creme Patissiere extra special and beautiful!

Authentic Vanilla Pastry Cream, known in French as Crème Pâtissière, is a delicious, classic custard dessert component. It's easy to make and can be used in an endless amount of ways.

Crème Légère is the perfect blend of indulgence and lightness, ideal for those who love pastry cream but want something a bit less dense. It means ‘Light Cream’ and it’s made by folding vanilla pastry cream with whipped cream. The result is a lighter, airy cream that keeps the richness of the egg yolks and vanilla but with a more delicate texture.

This pastry cream has a rich, creamy texture and makes a classic filling for pastries, cakes, and tarts. By combining both cornstarch and flour, our version achieves an irresistibly silky smoothness with just the right consistency. If you are looking to keep things gluten-free, simply skip the flour and add an extra tablespoon of cornstarch.

A delicious and easy component for so many pastries, this vanilla pastry cream is easy to make and delicious!