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How to Make Vanilla Pastry Cream

Vanilla pastry cream, also known as crème pâtissière, is a rich, thick, creamy custard and it’s used to fill everything from éclairs to Boston cream pie. Making your own homemade pastry cream is incredibly easy – you need just 6 ingredients and about 15 minutes to make it. Here, I share my fail-proo...
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How to Make Vanilla Pastry Cream
Ingredients
6 INGREDIENTS
2 SERVINGS
Granulated Sugar
5 1/3 g granulated sugar
Egg Yolks
6 large egg yolks
room temperature
Unsalted Butter
1 7/8 g unsalted butter
cubed
Full-fat Milk
16 g full-fat milk
Cornstarch
1 5/8 g cornstarch
Vanilla Bean Paste
2 tsp vanilla bean paste
Directions
25 STEPS
10 min
PREP TIME
5 min
COOK TIME
15 min
TOTAL TIME
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Health Info
Macros
108g
CARBS
31g
FAT
8g
PROTEIN
Allowed on these diets
VEGETARIAN
Contains these allergens
MILK
EGGS
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