This rich chocolate pastry cream is smooth, creamy and irresistible. Made with just 8 basic ingredients, it’s quick and easy too!

This tarte aux fraises is the perfect summer dessert! A delicious tart filled with pastry cream and then topped with fresh strawberries.

A step by step guide to making perfect, silky smooth creme patissiere (French pastry cream). Including FAQs, uses and troubleshooting.

How to make Crème Pâtissière (Pastry Cream). Recipe with step-by-step photos.

Delicious and authentic French Strawberry Tart: sweet pastry crust, creamy vanilla pastry cream, and fresh strawberries on top.

Layers of flaky puff pastry and silky vanilla pastry cream come together in this popular French cream pastry, also known as a Mille Feuille.

Chocolate Eclairs are a delicious combination of crisp choux pastry, rich and velvety pastry cream and some dark chocolate on top.

A buttery brioche is filled with a rich & velvety Chocolate Coffee Creme Patissier and scattered with pearl sugar. French heaven!

Tropezienne Tart is a brioche which is sliced in half and filled with absolutely light cream filling. (scroll down for English)

Dorie Greenspan’s profiteroles are out of this world! I made them with both vanilla and chocolate pastry cream.

My interpretation of the classic French cake, Fraisier