pastry cream
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Seattle Times • May 3, 2023
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 • Jan. 17, 2023
None of us cared that the caramel was burnt, or that the pastry cream gushed out of the profiteroles like raw egg yolks.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022
For anything savory, any bread, anything with fruit or nuts or pastry cream, pause for a moment while you bite, then chew, and experience a glimmer of gluten-based enlightenment.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022
His trembling hands whipped pastry cream as light as a shroud.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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