Egg-Yolk Pastry Cream for Cakes

This cream is so good it melts in your mouth — finger-licking delicious! Pastry cream (crème pâtissière) shows up in all kinds of sweet recipes, from cream puffs to cakes of every description. At first mine didn't come out quite like the ones I'd seen in photos online or on TV. But with practice it got better and better, and now it's exactly the way it should be! Let me show you how to make a delicious pastry cream for your cakes.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 10 % 4 g
Fats 12 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 78 % 32 g
189 kcal
GI: 9 / 3 / 88

Cooking method

Cooking time: 15 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    Ingredients

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    To start, pour the milk into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Meanwhile, separate the egg yolks from the whites and beat the yolks with the sugar.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Now add the vanilla sugar and flour to the yolk mixture.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Then pour the hot milk into the egg yolks, whisking everything together well.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Set the mixture over medium heat and cook until thickened.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Leave the cream to cool. Once it has, transfer it to a piping bag or pastry sleeve and fill your pastries or decorate your cake. Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68  kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64  kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60  kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47  kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140  kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54  kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333  kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364  kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348  kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325  kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Egg yolks - 352  kcal/100g
  • Vanilla sugar - 379  kcal/100g

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