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pastry cream

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Key ingredients in the crust are rice flour and pastry cream powder, Ramsay shared in an email to The Post.

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