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A Boston cream pie is an American dessert consisting of a yellow butter cake filled with custard or cream and topped with chocolate glaze. The dessert acquired its name when cakes and pies were cooked in the same pans, and the words were used interchangeably. All About Chocolate: Boston Cream Pie and Chocolate Sheet cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook boston cream pie using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Boston Cream Pie:
- Prepare CAKE
- Take 2 1/3 cup cake flour
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 12 tbsp butter, unsalted is best at room temperature
- Get 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- Take 3 large eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 cup buttermilk
- Take PASTRY CREAM FILLING
- Get 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Take 2 tbsp flour
- Take 2 tbsp cornstarch
- Make ready 4 large egg yolks
- Get 1 1/3 cup whole milk
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take CHOCOLATE GLAZE
- Prepare 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Take 8 oz semi sweet chocolate chips
- Take GARNISH
- Take 2 tbsp white chocolate shavings
It's a beauty of a cake, with two moist, spongy layers. Pastry Cream Filling: In a medium saucepan, heat the milk and vanilla bean to a boil over medium heat. The dessert was first created and served at the grand opening of Boston's Parker House. The original Boston Cream Pie was made with a butter sponge cake, thick homemade custard, and a chocolate fondant.
Instructions to make Boston Cream Pie:
- MAKE CAKE
- preheat oven to 350
- Grease and flour two 9 by 2 inch cake pans.
- Mix together, flour, baking powder, bakng soda and salt.
- Beat the butter until creamy, add sugar and beat 3 minutes until light and creamy, add eggs and vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternating with buttermilk on low spead do not overmix.
- Divide batter in cake pans, bake 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick comes ot clean.
- Cool 10 minutes on rack in pans.Run a small sharp knife around edges of pan and cool completely before filling.
- FOR FILLING
- In a large bowl combine sugar,flour, cornstarch and egg yolks,beat on high speed 2 minutes until thickened.
- Meanwhile in a saucepan heat milk to a simmer, gradually pour one third of hot milk into egg mixture whisking to combine,scrape the egg mixture into saucpan with remaing milk, whisking constantly scraping sides of pan to keep smooth.Cook over low to medium heat just until it begns to thicken and bubble, cook 60 seconds more. Remove from heat, add vanilla pour into bowl and cover surface with parchment paper to prevent a skin from forming Let cool then chill until cold. This can be made up to two days in advance.
- FOR CHOCOLATE LAZE
- Heat cream to a simmer, remove from heat add chocolate chips, let sit a minute then stir until smooth
- TO ASSEMBLE
- Spread cold pastry cream between layers of cooled cake. Pour lukewarm glaze over top having some drip down sides,sprinkle top with white chocolate shavings.
Some versions of the Boston Cream Pie recipe have a rum glaze on the cake, as. Boston Cream Pie II. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. 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. Layers of soft cake filled with homemade custard and topped with chocolate ganache. Boston Cream Pie is a classic dessert!
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