Vanilla Pastry Cream

Name: Vanilla Pastry Cream (Crème Pâtissière)
Ingredients: 2 vanilla beans; 1 ¾ cups (450 ml) whole milk; Scant ¼ cup (50 ml) whipping cream; 3 egg yolks; 2 ½ tablespoons (1 oz./25 g) cornstarch; 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons (15 g) cake flour; ¾ cup (5 ¼ oz./150 g) granulated sugar

Crème Pâtissière

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Encyclopedia of Chocolate

By Frédéric Bau and École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Published 2017

About

This is one of the most frequently used creams in pastry making. It’s perfect as a bed in tarts in which fruits can nestle.

Ingredients

2 vanilla beans
1 ¾ cups (450 ml) whole milk
Scant

Garnish
Vegetarian

Method

Slit the vanilla beans lengthways and scrape out the seeds into the milk and cream to be boiled. Whisk together the egg yolks, starch, flour, and sugar until pale and thick.

Bring the milk and cream to the boil in a saucepan. Mix in a little of the hot liquid with the egg combined with the dry ingredients. When it is thoroughly blended, pour it ba