Recipe: Confectioner's custard

Name: Crème pâtissière
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: Pour un grand bol de crème pâtissière :5 dl de lait entier (soit 1/2 litre); 1 gousse de vanille fendue en 2 et grattée ou un sachet de sucre vanillé; 6 jaunes d'œufs; 150 gr de sucre semoule*; 50 gr de maïzena*; sucre glace ou beurre

By chef patrick Asfaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9/5 (49 reviews) Desserts

Prep 10 min

Cook 20 min

Total 30 min

Cette crème pâtissière reste une base et son emploi est universel. Elle sera votre compagne à l'accomplissement des mille-feuilles, tartes, soufflés, gâteau basque, etc

Ingredients

This custard is a basis for numerous desserts like cakes, tarts, soufflés etc...
Serving for a large bowl of confectioner's custard :
1/2 liter (1 pint) milk
1 vanilla bean (cut into 2 long halfes) or 1 small bag of vanilla flavoured sugar
6 egg yolks
150 grams (1/3 lb) caster sugar
50 grams (1.5 oz) corn starch powder (or wheat flour but the custard is lighter with starch)

Icing sugar or 1 "nut" of butter

Step-by-step directions

1 In a sauce pan, pour 1 soup spoon of cold water then the milk and the vanilla and make it boiling.

2 In the meantime, blend in a salad bowl the egg yolks with the caster sugar and stir until the colour of the mixture becomes ligther then carefully add and blend the starch powder.

3 Pour on the mixture the boiling milk (without the vanilla bean) while whisking, then transfer the whole in the sauce pan and put it under heat on the cooking hob.

4 Still without stopping whisking with a whip, let it gently boil during 2 minutes (it will become thicker like a cream), then pour it on a plate and cover with either icing suger or with a little melt butter to avoid hardening.

At that point, the custard can be used for numerous recipes.

You can flavour it by adding and mixing with 150 grams (1/3 lb) chocolate chips while the custard is still hot or with a few coffee concentrate drops or with 2 soup spoons of freezedried coffee

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