Nut butter pastry cream flavored with vanilla and a mix of hazelnut and almond butter, delicious!
For this recipe, you need two preparations, the nut butter that can be made a few days ahead, and a vanilla pastry cream. Here, I added some whipped cream to lighten it.
For the nut butter, you can find my recipe here
You can use this nut butter pastry cream to fill choux pastries, pies, etc.
I have used this recipe to fill my Christmas Eclairs, recipe can be found here
1 1/4 cups (300 ml) milk
1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise or 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
3 egg yolks
1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated white sugar
4 tbsp. (40 grams) cornstarch (corn flour)
1/2 cup (120 ml) heavy cream, very cold
About 4 tbsp. Nut butter find my recipe here
Into a small saucepan, add the milk, vanilla pod and seeds and bring just to boil
Meanwhile, in a medium-sized bowl, whisk the sugar and egg yolks together
Add the cornstarch to the egg mixture and whisk until smooth
Once the milk boils, remove from heat and add about half to egg mixture, whisking constantly to prevent curdling
Then pour the egg mixture back into the saucepan with the milk and cook over medium heat until custard thickens, whisking constantly
Remove from heat, pour into a clean bowl and immediately cover on contact with plastic wrap (lay the plastic wrap right onto the surface of custard) to prevent a skin from forming
Let cool at room temperature, then chill in fridge a few hours so the custard thickens
Once cooled and thickened, add the custard to the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment, whisk at high speed until custard is smooth
Continue whisking at high speed, while drizzling in the heavy cream, whisk until custard is firm and cream whipped
Then add about 4 tbsp. of nut butter, or more according to taste, again whisk at high speed until fully incorporated
This custard can be stored in the refrigerator up to 3 days
I don’t like to use pure vanilla extract in pastry cream, because I find that it “stains” the cream, instead of being pale yellow, it becomes “brownish”
Whisk vigorously before using to get rid of any lumps that may have formed
If there are pieces of eggs into your custard, pour it through a strainer
For lighter pastry cream, fold in 1/2 cup (120 ml) softly whipped cream to cooled pastry cream
For chocolate pastry cream, please check my recipe here
For coffee pastry cream, add 1/2 - 1 tbsp. instant espresso or coffee powder to the hot milk
For raspberry pastry cream, add 1/4 cup (60 ml) (or to taste) raspberry sauce to pastry cream
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