pastry cream
Noun
Meaning
pastry cream (countable and uncountable, plural pastry creams)
Custard thickened with starch.
Examples
For this popular stuffed doughnut, De Boinod steeps Earl Grey tea bags from Sloane for the pastry cream filling.
At places like Pasticceria Rocco on Bleecker Street and in Bay Ridge, the bakery sells a custardy tiramisu in a cup as well as a cake version, big as a brick, with vast sponge cake layers between pastry cream.
Derrick and meriko filling tartsWhile pastry cream is common as a filling for fruit tarts, I often find it to be too heavy.
If you goof a little and pastry cream turns out lumpy, pass it through a fine sieve before refrigerating.
Note: The layer cake will require less pastry cream filling than the cupcakes.
She explained that the "little carriage cream puffs""pastry cream babies."