Pastry cream filling

This delicious French pastry cream recipe is a perfect filling for desserts such as millefeuille, tarts, cakes and choux pastries.

Smooth and velvety, vanilla pastry cream is the iconic filling in classic desserts like eclairs and cream puffs!

This vanilla pastry cream recipe is a perfect filling for cream puffs, tarts, pastries, cakes, and other delicious desserts! With step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips you'll be able to make this simple and versatile dessert filling.

This easy pastry cream recipe can be used to fill cream puffs, eclairs, cakes, cupcakes, and so much more!

This silky, smooth lemon pastry cream makes use of the fruit’s fresh zest and bright juice to yield a rich custard that tastes like sunshine.

In my early cooking years I realized just how important it was to know how to make a velvety vanilla pastry cream. It’s so delicious and versatile.

Rich, creamy vanilla pastry cream (creme patissiere) is used in many desserts. This recipe is gluten free, and also dairy free friendly.

Simple to make, this entirely-from-scratch Bavarian cream is a perfect filling for cakes, pies, tarts, cream puffs, or even a spoon.

Smooth and creamy Italian lemon pastry cream is made with egg yolks, milk, sugar and flour and flavored with lemon. Rich and thick, crema pasticcera is used in many Italian desserts from cakes, to doughnuts, to tarts! Sweet and velvety Italian lemon pastry cream is incredible! Called crema pasticcera in Italy or crème pâtissière in French, it is an essential filling in many Italian desserts including bombolini (Italian doughnuts) and this lemon cake.

If you love indulging in tasty, creamy desserts, then learning how to make a traditional French pastry cream is the perfect way to go! Creme patissiere is a classic custard-like filling found in cakes, tarts, mousses and more. With this easy recipe, you'll learn how to make a luscious, silky pastry cream in no time.