Vanilla pastry cream

In my early cooking years I realized just how important it was to know how to make a velvety vanilla pastry cream. It’s so delicious and versatile.

This vanilla pastry cream recipe is a perfect filling for cream puffs, tarts, pastries, cakes, and other delicious desserts! With step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips you'll be able to make this simple and versatile dessert filling.

Smooth, rich Vanilla Pastry Cream (aka creme patisserie) is a classic French filling used in many dessert recipes. It's easier to make than you might think and can be used in so many ways!

Boston Cream Donuts recipe for homemade donuts filled with pastry cream and topped with chocolate ganache glaze. Easy and impressive dessert.

Learn how to make the best vanilla pastry cream for filling desserts! It's perfect for filling cakes, pastries and cookies!

Make homemade Pastry Cream in 30 minutes with this easy crème pâtissière recipe. Flavored with real vanilla beans and perfect for piping!

Everyone who bakes, even occasionally, should have their preferred recipe for pastry cream. It’s one of those decadent classics that’s never out of fashion, always in season, and has TONES of ways to use it.

Pastry cream—made by heating milk, sugar, eggs, starch, and flavoring together—is a rich, thick, and creamy custard that's a versatile workhorse in the baker’s kitchen.

This is the BEST and easiest vanilla bean pastry cream! You make it in one pot and there's no need to temper the egg yolks. It's thick, rich and luscious. Use this fill cakes, cupcakes and pastries or serve it alongside pie with some fresh berries. It makes a fabulous dessert on its own with some crushed biscuits or meringue with fresh fruit.

Fast and Easy Coffee Pastry Cream, a creamy delicious Italian coffee filling, perfect for filling cakes, pies and pastries.