A while back I worked on perfecting boston cream pie. I likes parts of different recipes so I combined them! Them. The cream filling is fairly fool proof too:
Boston Cream Pie
Glaze
1/2 cup heavy or whipping cream
1 tablespoon corn syrup
3/4 cup chopped dark chocolate or semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream Filling
2 large eggs
1 ½ cups milk
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
Cake
Baking spray with flour to grease pan
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour or 1 ½ cups cake flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine, room temperature
¾ cup milk
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt
1 large egg
Directions
- Separate the yolks from the whites and place the yolks in a small bowl. Beat the egg yolks with a fork or wire whisk until mixed. Stir in 1 1/2 cups milk; set aside.
- In a 2-quart saucepan, stir 1/3 cup granulated sugar, the cornstarch and 1/8 teaspoon salt until mixed. Gradually stir egg mixture into sugar mixture. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Boil and stir 1 minute; remove from heat. Stir in 2 teaspoons vanilla. Press plastic wrap on surface of filling to prevent a tough layer from forming on top. Refrigerate at least 2 hours until set but no longer than 24 hours. While filling is chilling, continue with recipe.
- Heat the oven to 350°F. Spray just the bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan with the baking spray.
- In a large bowl, beat all cake ingredients with an electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, stopping frequently to scrape batter from side and bottom of bowl with a rubber spatula. Beat on high speed 3 minutes, stopping occasionally to scrape bowl. Pour batter into the pan; use a rubber spatula to scrape batter from bowl, spread batter evenly in pan and smooth top of batter.
- Bake about 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a cooling rack 20 minutes, then remove onto cooling rack to finish cooling completely, about 1 hour.
When the cake is completely cool, use a long, sharp serrated knife to
slice into two equal layers. Fill with the pastry cream, spreading it right
to the edges. Replace the top layer.
- Prepare the glaze by melting the chocolate, corn syrup, and cream together until smooth and lump free. Add the vanilla and stir well. Pour the glaze over the filled cake.