Vanilla pastry cream or creme patissiere, the most delicious vanilla custard filling for cream puffs, donuts, fruit tarts and numerous pastries, learn how to make pastry cream and a few possible variations.
Pastry cream is a custard that is mainly used as a filling for cream puffs, or fruit tarts, muffins and all kinds of pastries. Vanilla pastry cream is a basic recipe, it can be flavored with a large variety of ingredients, such as chocolate, coffee, hazelnut, fruit syrups, liqueurs, etc.