Pastry Cream

Pastry cream is compulsively eatable as soon as you make it, like the best vanilla pudding you’ve ever had. Add cooked tapioca pearls for a perfect tapioca pudding; add kirsch or framboise for flavor. It can be used to fill Cream Puffs, to take the place of the whipped cream in a Pavlova, or to layer with crêpes to make a Crêpe Cake. And here’s a secret: It’s the same re