Flavored pastry cream

A lighter, pistachio flavored Italian pastry cream.

This recipe for Coffee Pastry Cream is delicious, the perfect filling for napoleons, profiteroles, tarts, cakes and more! You will love this spin on pastry cream, view the step-by-step photos for easy success!

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. #PastryCream #FrenchCuisine #SweetTooth #Dessert #SeriousEats

This French Vanilla Crème Pâtissière (Pastry Cream) is a delicious creamy and thick custard, perfect to use as a filling for pastries.

Classic Crème Pâtissière is a creamy French custard pastry cream used to fill fruit tarts, choux buns and more. Learn how to make it with my step-by-step guide.

Sweet and citrusy, this clementine creme patisserie (or pastry cream) is versatile as a filling for pies, cakes, pastries, trifles, and mini desserts.

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.

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

Raspberry cream puffs from scratch. A small batch recipe that yields 10-12 choux pastry puffs filled with raspberry cream.

Find out how to make 13 types of pastry cream to pair with choux buns, eclairs, tarts, puff pastry and more!