How To Make French Pastry Cream {Traditional French Custard Recipe}

Searching for traditional French custard recipes to use in 2022? On this webpage, you can learn how to make French pastry cream from scratch in 12 steps to fill ups various homemade cakes.

You can use this easy vanilla custard cream recipe to prepare a cream in the French style and fill up eclairs, profiteroles, choux-a-la-creme, and other cake types.

Don’t miss the chance to learn in the video below about how to make vanilla custard using the authentic French pastry cream recipe!

🔎 What is French custard? ⬇️

French custard is a soft-set custard with a smooth and creamy texture and a delicate flavor. It’s made from egg yolks, dairy products (milk, cream, and sometimes butter), flour, corn starch, or potato starch.
The ingredients are mixed together, heated gently, and cooked until thick and creamy. It’s used in many desserts and can be served both hot and cold.

🔎 What is crème pâtissière? ⬇️

Crème pâtissière, also known as custard cream, is a thick, creamy French dessert made from cream, flour, and eggs. It’s often served as a sauce over fruit or other desserts, or as a filling for pastries and cakes.
Custard cream is sometimes confused with pastry cream, which is a very similar sauce but made from cream and flour, not eggs. Crème pâtissière is made from pulverized sugar, rather than flour.

🔎 What is crème anglaise? ⬇️

Crème anglaise is a sauce or filling made by cooking a mixture of egg yolks and sugar until the mixture thickens. It’s similar to French custard, which is made by cooking egg yolks and sugar until the mixture thickens.
However, while French custard is made with hot milk, crème anglaise is made with cold milk and is typically used as a topping for desserts or for filling pastries, such as éclairs.

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What is cooking?

The question “what is cooking” can be answered by preparing food in a certain way, especially by heating the ingredients and sometimes also by cooling them. Cooking is a simple everyday activity for ordinary families, but it can also be a form of art in the case of professional chefs.

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What is home cooking?

Home cooking can often only mean preparing dinner and/or breakfast. When cooking at home, you control the ingredients and how they are used, which can produce delicious, healthier, and often cheaper foods using the same ingredients as when prepared in a restaurant.
In cooking, the definition of the word “homemade” may vary from person to person, but in most contexts, the word refers to food that was prepared using ingredients that were originally purchased from the store. For example, if you buy ground beef and make a hamburger at home, it can be said that it was “homemade”.

➡️ What ingredients do you need to make vanilla custard? ❓

1) 2 eggs
2) 100 g/3.5 oz of granulated sugar
3) 150 g/5.5 oz of all-purpose flour
4) 2 x 250 ml/8.5 fl oz of cold cow milk
5) 1 tsp of vanilla essence
6) 100 g/3.5 oz of butter or cake margarine
7) 100 g/3.5 oz of caster sugar

➡️ How to make French vanilla custard from scratch? ❓

Pastry Cream Recipe - Easy Vanilla Custard Recipe

1) break eggs and place them into a bowl
2) add sugar over eggs, then combine ingredients by mixer until sugar is dissolved completely
3) add flour to the bowl and mix ingredients by hand until smooth
4) pour 250 ml/8.5 fl oz of milk into the bowl and mix ingredients
5) pour the rest of the milk into a saucepan and place it on the stovetop over medium temperature
6) when milk from the saucepan has warmed well, pour inside the mixture prepared previously while mixing continuously
7) cream is ready when is smooth and has a slightly viscous and elastic consistency
8) take the pan off the stove, add vanilla, and mix ingredients to combine very well
9) cover vanilla pastry cream with foil and wait to cool to room temperature
10) place butter into a bowl, then add gradually caster sugar while combining ingredients by hand continuously
11) add gradually the entire amount of mixture from the saucepan to sweetened butter while mixing by hand
12) use vanilla custard as filling for various homemade cake recipes

➡️ Tips For The French Pastry Cream Recipe 🔎

What are cooking tips?

Cooking tips are a set of information provided by the creator of a recipe, an experienced chef, or a culinary expert to prepare food in the best possible way.

Vanilla cake recipes are without a doubt one of the most popular homemade cake recipes. That’s because vanilla is the most popular cake flavor and everyone loves it.

I love vanilla cakes of any kind! That’s why I often bake all kinds of homemade vanilla cakes, with or without cream. Vanilla cream-filled cakes are definitely one of my favorite things in my family, so I have to make such cakes frequently.

Among the vanilla cream cakes I make most often are cremeschnitte, choux-a-la-crème, eclairs, and so on.

You probably know, there are different ways to make vanilla cream filling. Some recipes are based on French custard recipes, others are simpler and can even be made from vanilla pudding.

The vanilla custard for cakes featured on this page is based on a traditional French pastry cream recipe. It’s a basic cream for cream-filled cakes that I use most often when making eclairs, choux-a-la-crème, and profiteroles.

Depending on the cake you are going to make, it’s advisable to use the filling with or without gelatin. The vanilla cream recipe available on this page does not contain gelatin, so it’s pretty moist and flows quite easily from the cake.

If you are looking for a thicker and firmer cream to fill your cakes, follow the link in the section below. I use that recipe for heavier homemade cake recipes, like the classic cremeschnitte.

Regardless of the pastry cream recipe you choose, each one is very tasty and will help you make a fantastic cake at home, which will please both your family and friends!

Enjoy both French custard and French pastry cream, as well as the homemade cake recipes you make with them!

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What is a recipe?

In cooking, a recipe is a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of ingredients and a specific method of cooking.

👌 How To Make French Custard – Video 📺

➡️ What ingredients do you need to make vanilla custard? ❓

➡️ How to make French vanilla custard from scratch? ❓

➡️ Tips For The French Pastry Cream Recipe 🔎

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