pastry cream Archives - ZoëBakes eat dessert first Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:39:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 36689627 Banana Pudding https://www.zoebakes.com/2025/01/15/banana-pudding/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2025/01/15/banana-pudding/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:12:16 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=7688 I love this banana pudding recipe featuring homemade Nilla wafers, pastry cream (pudding), and perfect whipped cream. It’s a simple, elegant dish that you can serve in a large glass container or in individual jars. The quintessential southern dessert is found on the back of the box of Nilla wafers. […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2025/01/15/banana-pudding/feed/ 14 7688 Christmas Croquembouche https://www.zoebakes.com/2024/12/05/christmas-croquembouche/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2024/12/05/christmas-croquembouche/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:39:02 +0000 https://zoebakes.com/?p=9203 A Christmas Croquembouche seems like the perfect way to celebrate this holiday season. Cream puffs held together by swirls of delicate caramel make for a gorgeous, festive display. More Holiday Recipes What Is Croquembouche? A croquembouche (kroke-em-boosh) is a tower of profiteroles (cream puffs) stuck together with a thin layer […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2024/12/05/christmas-croquembouche/feed/ 7 9203 Raspberry Custard Tart (Flan Parisien) https://www.zoebakes.com/2018/03/13/raspberry-custard-tart-flan-parisien/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2018/03/13/raspberry-custard-tart-flan-parisien/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:37:03 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=7768 This is a wonderful tart filled with vanilla custard. You’ll find custard tart in every patisserie in Paris, but have likely never come across one here in the states. Its rustic simplicity is exactly the kind of pastry I love. It’s really quite easy to create; a tart dough (this […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2018/03/13/raspberry-custard-tart-flan-parisien/feed/ 11 7768 Coconut Cream Cake with Toasted Meringue Frosting https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/12/02/coconut-cream-cake/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/12/02/coconut-cream-cake/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:55:45 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=2718 I first posted this Coconut Cream Cake recipe 6 years ago and have made it several times since. It is always a crowd pleaser, partly because of the meringue topping, all done up like curls that remind me of Phyllis Diller and because it is just delicious. Decadent pastry cream full […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2016/12/02/coconut-cream-cake/feed/ 130 2718 Éclairs https://www.zoebakes.com/2014/01/21/eclairs/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2014/01/21/eclairs/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:06:40 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=6180 “Lightning!” That’s the literal translation from French I got when I put éclair into google translate. I’ve read a couple of explanations for this name, but only one makes any sense to me. “They disappear in a flash, quicker than a bolt of lightning.” This is the absolute truth. Eclairs […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2014/01/21/eclairs/feed/ 50 6180 Chocolate Blackout Cake + How to Frost a Cake Video https://www.zoebakes.com/2011/01/06/chocolate-blackout-cake/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2011/01/06/chocolate-blackout-cake/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:29:43 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=3240 Over the holiday break I traveled with my family to Brooklyn to visit my mother. A little respite from the winter wonderland of Minneapolis. I packed all my on-the-town shoes, in varying degrees of heels for walking through museums, dining out and seeing shows. My husband checked and rechecked the […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2011/01/06/chocolate-blackout-cake/feed/ 41 3240 Chocolate Berry Trifle https://www.zoebakes.com/2010/06/03/just-a-little-trifle/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2010/06/03/just-a-little-trifle/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:10:47 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=2939 The chocolate berry trifle acts as the perfect vehicle for cleaning out your refrigerator/freezer of all those tasty little treats you just had to hang on to. I am guilty of an overstuffed freezer. It must be my pastry chef days of NO waste, ever. It is something I am […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2010/06/03/just-a-little-trifle/feed/ 29 2939 Cream Puffs and a Nest of Nuts! https://www.zoebakes.com/2008/11/16/a-tale-of-two-puffs-and-a-nest-of-nuts/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2008/11/16/a-tale-of-two-puffs-and-a-nest-of-nuts/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:00:15 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=1242 It is my birthday and I decided to make myself something fun to celebrate. Now that I am squarely in my 40s I find it especially important to make this occasion a special one. I was in the mood to play with sugar. It has been years, many years, since […]

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