Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, boston cream pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Boston cream pie is a heavenly combination of light buttery layer cake, creamy vanilla custard and rich chocolate icing. Master this classic cake—the "pie" title is a holdover from a time when cakes and pies were typically baked in the same type of pan—and you'll always have a showstopping dessert for birthdays and other special celebrations. Boston cream pie is my favorite and I must admit as another member did that this was very dry and flavorless.
Boston Cream Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Boston Cream Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have boston cream pie using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Boston Cream Pie:
- Prepare CAKE
- Take 2 1/3 cup cake flour
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 12 tbsp butter, unsalted is best at room temperature
- Get 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- Prepare 3 large eggs
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 cup buttermilk
- Prepare PASTRY CREAM FILLING
- Make ready 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Take 2 tbsp flour
- Get 2 tbsp cornstarch
- Get 4 large egg yolks
- Get 1 1/3 cup whole milk
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready CHOCOLATE GLAZE
- Prepare 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Make ready 8 oz semi sweet chocolate chips
- Take GARNISH
- Take 2 tbsp white chocolate shavings
Its base is an old-fashioned hot milk cake, a downy-soft, buttery yellow cake. How you whip the eggs and the sugar is critical, as the tiny air bubbles they produce add lift to the finished product. I had made another of MS's Boston Cream Pie yesterday which was a complete flop. It was dense and undercooked and had to be thrown away.
Steps to make Boston Cream Pie:
- MAKE CAKE
- preheat oven to 350
- Grease and flour two 9 by 2 inch cake pans.
- Mix together, flour, baking powder, bakng soda and salt.
- Beat the butter until creamy, add sugar and beat 3 minutes until light and creamy, add eggs and vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternating with buttermilk on low spead do not overmix.
- Divide batter in cake pans, bake 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick comes ot clean.
- Cool 10 minutes on rack in pans.Run a small sharp knife around edges of pan and cool completely before filling.
- FOR FILLING
- In a large bowl combine sugar,flour, cornstarch and egg yolks,beat on high speed 2 minutes until thickened.
- Meanwhile in a saucepan heat milk to a simmer, gradually pour one third of hot milk into egg mixture whisking to combine,scrape the egg mixture into saucpan with remaing milk, whisking constantly scraping sides of pan to keep smooth.Cook over low to medium heat just until it begns to thicken and bubble, cook 60 seconds more. Remove from heat, add vanilla pour into bowl and cover surface with parchment paper to prevent a skin from forming Let cool then chill until cold. This can be made up to two days in advance.
- FOR CHOCOLATE LAZE
- Heat cream to a simmer, remove from heat add chocolate chips, let sit a minute then stir until smooth
- TO ASSEMBLE
- Spread cold pastry cream between layers of cooled cake. Pour lukewarm glaze over top having some drip down sides,sprinkle top with white chocolate shavings.
I highly recommend making all parts in advance! A Boston cream pie is an American dessert consisting of a yellow butter cake filled with custard or cream and topped with chocolate glaze. The dessert acquired its name when cakes and pies were cooked in the same pans, and the words were used interchangeably. Boston cream pie is very much a cake and very much an intimidating recipe if you aren't prepared with some helpful tips, careful directions, step-by-step photos, and a video tutorial. Homemade vanilla pudding with vanilla straight from the bean gives this Boston cream pie recipe it's decadent classic flavor.
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