Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, boston cream pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A Boston cream pie is an American dessert consisting of a yellow butter cake filled with custard or cream and topped with chocolate glaze. This Boston Cream Pie is a classic cake - not a pie at all! It's a lovely vanilla cake layered with fresh pastry cream and chocolate ganache - all from scratch!
Boston cream pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Boston cream pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook boston cream pie using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Boston cream pie:
- Prepare Custard Filling
- Make ready 2 cups milk
- Make ready vanilla bean split or 1.5 tsp vanilla extact
- Get 2/3 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- Get 1/8 tsp salt
- Make ready 2 large eggs
- Prepare 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- Get 1 tbsp rum
- Make ready cake batter
- Prepare 2 cups sifted flour
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Make ready 2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 salt
- Make ready 1/3 cup unsalted butter (room temp)
- Make ready 3/4 cup milk
- Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 large egg
- Get chocolate ganache
- Make ready 2 cups bitter sweet chocolate
- Get 1 tbsp brute cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp butter
- Prepare 1/4 cup heavy cream
- Get 1 tbsp bourbon (optional)
Layers of soft cake filled with homemade custard and topped with chocolate ganache. Boston cream pie is a simple delicious cake, usually a sponge cake or butter cake, filled with a thick layer of vanilla pastry cream and glazed with a shiny chocolate ganache. This recipe was similar to the Boston Cream Pie recipe of today. This easy Boston Cream Pie recipe is semi-homemade with a cream filling but tastes like you spent You can even make Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes instead of a cake.
Instructions to make Boston cream pie:
- FOR CAKE BATTER: mix all your wet ingredients and then add to your dry, mix until smoothe. Divide the mix into two 8 inch spring pans. Bake in a 350° pre heated oven for 20 mins. Let sit until cool
- FOR CUSTARD: Add all ingredients in a heavy bottom sauce pan, on low heat continue stirring until it starts to thicken. Let cool
- FOR GANACHE: Add all ingredients in a heavy bottom skillet on low heat and stir until melted
- TO BUILD: 1. On serving platter lay one half of the cake 2. Spread your custard 3. Top with the other cake 4. Pour your ganache over the top and spread evenly. Slice and enjoy!
- Note* You can also bake these in muffin pans and turn these into Boston cream pie mini's just build them the same way and maybe double the ganache recipe.
Boston cream pie is my favorite and I must admit as another member did that this was very dry and flavorless. Originally, Boston Cream Pie was called Parker House Chocolate Cream Pie, but as you can tell by looking at it, it's actually a cake rather than a pie. Boston Cream Pie is a classic dessert! Two layers of yellow cake are filled with pastry cream and topped off with a chocolate glaze. It is sure to be a favorite!
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