🍦 Pastry Cream

500 g · prep 10 min · cook 10 min

Ingredients

• 500 ml milk
• 4 egg yolks
• 100 g sugar
• 40 g cornstarch
• 1 vanilla pod
• 30 g butter

Method

1. Heat the milk with the split vanilla pod.
2. Whisk the yolks with the sugar until pale, then add the cornstarch.
3. Pour in the hot milk in a stream while whisking.
4. Return to the heat and whisk constantly until thick (1-2 min at the boil).
5. Off the heat, beat in the butter; cover with cling film touching the surface and chill fast.

Adapted from Preppy Kitchen (YouTube)

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