pastry cream

noun

1. a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc Also calledpastry custard

Example Sentences

THE RECIPE: The pie, while multipartite in construction, keeps the ingredients simple and pure: lots of butter for the crust, rich dairy throughout, real vanilla bean in the pastry cream.

From Seattle Times

This most famous of all Seattle desserts could actually qualify as a quadruple coconut-threat: It’s got a coconut-containing crust; pastry cream filling with both coconut milk and shredded coconut; and whipped cream topping augmented with toasted coconut, plus white chocolate shavings.

From Seattle Times

Pastry cream or custard is traditional in a blitz torte, but whipped cream is a simpler, lighter alternative, making it a wonderful contrast to the rich, yolk-filled cake and sweet meringue.

From Washington Post

The banana split with Tajin-spiced popcorn will blow your inner child’s mind, but the dessert to order is the honey cake, 10 layers of honeyed cookies softened with a combination of pastry cream and buttercream.

From Washington Post

Key ingredients in the crust are rice flour and pastry cream powder, Ramsay shared in an email to The Post.

From Washington Post