pastry cream

British  

noun

1. Also called: pastry custard.  a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc

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Example Sentences

With a few hours to kill before my flight and a few bucks to spend, I started my day at Rosetta Bakery, where a croissant bulging with pumpkin pastry cream fueled my final bike ride to the free Miami Beach Botanical Garden.

From The Wall Street Journal

THE RECIPE: The pie, while multipartite in construction, keeps the ingredients simple and pure: lots of butter for the crust, rich dairy throughout, real vanilla bean in the pastry cream.

From Seattle Times

This most famous of all Seattle desserts could actually qualify as a quadruple coconut-threat: It’s got a coconut-containing crust; pastry cream filling with both coconut milk and shredded coconut; and whipped cream topping augmented with toasted coconut, plus white chocolate shavings.

From Seattle Times

Pastry cream or custard is traditional in a blitz torte, but whipped cream is a simpler, lighter alternative, making it a wonderful contrast to the rich, yolk-filled cake and sweet meringue.

From Washington Post

The banana split with Tajin-spiced popcorn will blow your inner child’s mind, but the dessert to order is the honey cake, 10 layers of honeyed cookies softened with a combination of pastry cream and buttercream.

From Washington Post