Learn how to make pastry cream, a classic French stirred custard (crème pâtissière) used it to fill cakes, pastries, tarts, and pies.

Make perfect Crema Pasticcera every time! This rich, smooth and creamy pasty cream is a perfect filling for croissants, profiteroles, pandor

Pain au raisins is a laminated French pastry, like croissants. It is filled with a decadent pastry cream and plump raisins. Ooh la la!

Homemade Custard Recipe (Pastry Cream) – quick and easy to make, foolproof custard recipe that can be served on its own, or used as a cake,

Fresh Peach Cake with Pastry Cream (in Dutch)

Cannelés are little French custard cakes. Easy to make, they have a hard outer crust and a soft custard center.

The most delectable eclairs and rich, beautiful custard pastry cream are a lot simpler to make than you’d think!

Summer berry and custard tarts – crispy pastry filled with creamy vanilla custard and topped with fresh, juicy berries.

Banoffee pie – pastry crust filled with bananas, custard, cream and salted caramel sauce

Gingery Vanilla Slice – Vanilla slice with a bang of a ginger hit.

Step-by-step instructions for making delicious, creamy, vanilla bean pastry cream!

Fresh berry tart with vanilla pastry cream.

A very basic yet irresistible choux pastry filled with yummy pastry cream.

Boston Cream Whoopie Pies– Delicious vanilla cakes topped with chocolate and filled with pastry cream. Also a symbol of my solidarity.

A cross between strawberry shortcake and banana cream pie, the perfect birthday cake!

Cream Puffs – one of my all time favorite desserts. The luscious pastry cream and whipped cream filling melts away in your mouth.

Polish vanilla slice (karpatka) made with choux pastry

Canutillos filled with pastry cream (in Spanish)

Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes. Fluffy white cake, creamy vanilla custard filling and a chocolate ganache top

French brioche rolls with pastry cream and chocolate. Just amazing! (in Italian)

Pear Pies with tea-infused custard