Pastry cream
Crème Pâtissière
Ingredients
- 2 cups 500 ml Milk
- ⅓ cup 80 g Granulated sugar
- 1 Vanilla bean
- 3 Egg yolks
- 1 Egg
- 4 tbsp 40 g Cornstarch
Instructions
- Mix the egg yolks, egg, cornstarch, and a third of the milk.
- Boil the rest of the milk with sugar and the halved vanilla bean.
- Scrape the vanilla bean pulp into the milk.
- While stirring constantly, pour the egg and milk mixture into the boiling milk and bring to a boil again.
- Put the cream in a metal mixing bowl and mix until cold in a cold water bath.
- Cover with plastic wrap so that it doesn’t develop a skin and use as desired.
- Use: as a basic cream in pastries