Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, boston cream pie. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Boston Cream Pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Boston Cream Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook boston cream pie using 22 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Boston Cream Pie:
- Get Custard Filling
- Make ready 2 Egg Yolks only
- Make ready 1.5 Cups Almond Milk
- Take 1/3 Cups Sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp Cornstarch
- Take 1/8 tsp Salt
- Get 1 tbsp Creme Bouquet (or clear vanilla if your a casual)
- Make ready Cake!
- Prepare 1.5 Cups Cake Flour (Use all purpose and replace 2.5 tbps with cornstarch if you dont have any like I never do…)
- Make ready 1 Cup Sugar
- Prepare 1.5 tsp Baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
- Take 1/3 Cup Butter
- Take 3/4 Cup Almond Milk
- Make ready 1 Egg
- Get 1 tsp Creme Bouquet (or some vanilla)
- Make ready Chocolate Topping
- Prepare 3 tbsp Butter
- Get 3 oz Unsweetened dark chocolate 70% + (consider
- Make ready 1 cup Powdered Sugar
- Prepare 1.5 tsp Crem Bouquet (yeah.. Vanilla)
- Take tbsp Hot Water - ~4
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.
Steps to make Boston Cream Pie:
- Make the Custard. I usually make the cake and the custard in one evening and the next day make the chocolate and assemble as this needs a few hours to set…
- Whisk the 2 yolks in a bowl and add the Almond milk.
- Mix Sugar, Cornstarch, Salt well together in a small sauce pan until blended
- Turn on the heat to med/high and add the egg milk mixture.
- Stir constantly until it starts boiling at the edges and it will start thickening. Boil like this for 60 seconds only! Then turn off the heat and mix in the Creme Bouquet flavoring.
- Pour into a glass bowl and cover with plastic and a lid, put it in the fridge for at least a few hours. Overnight is great.
- Now make the cake! Pre-Heat oven to 350deg. Prepare a 9in cake pan however you do. I crisco the pan and dust with flour and it never sticks.
- Sift all the dry cake ingredients into a mixer bowl. Add all the wet ingredients. Mix slowly for a few turns and get it all homogenized.
- Mix on high for 3 minutes and make sure to scrape it down a few times to ensure its even and airy.
- Pour into cake pan evenly and bake for about 30min until test comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool for 15-20min.
- Baste cake with simple sugar if you like to. Wrap it in plastic and store in fridge overnight with the custard.
- Assembly time! Get the cake out and torte it. Layer the bottom with the custard and set the top on it. It will be jiggly. Have a dance party and shake with it. Then get to the chocolate topping. (Maple maybe if you like?)
- Heat 4 tbsp or so of water for 30s or so to make it hot. Set it aside
- Melt butter and chocolate together in small sauce pan.
- When silky smooth, remove from heat and add vanilla and add in the powdered sugar about a third at a time and keep stirring until its sort of a chunky mess.
- When all combined add a tbsp of hot water at a time until it is all smoothed back out and looks (smells) like donut topping.
- Pour over the jiggly cake evenly and let it drip down the sides. Refrigerate to set it.
- More dance party (to burn calories) now put the cake inside of you.
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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