Quick Bavarian Cream

Preparation info
  • Approximately

    3 pounds

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 2003

  • About

This is not a classic Bavarian cream. In fact, it is closer to a Diplomat cream, but it can be used for many of the same applications and is a real timesaver because it uses pastry cream, a stock item in most pastry kitchens, as a prefabricated base. This eliminates the need to make a custard and wait for it to cool. If you do not have pastry cream on hand, you might want to make Classic Bavarian Cream instead. If you are making pastry cream specifically to use in this recipe, make it far e