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Ingredient

Pastry cream

Also called crème pâtissière, creme pat and confectioners' custard

Pastry cream is a custard made with egg yolk, sugar, and starch, sometimes flavored with vanilla, chocolate, or lemon. Cooks use it as a filling.

  • Egg
  • Allergen: egg

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
France
Pastry cream, prepared

Photo: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use pastry cream

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Stuff

Made from

Preparing it

The set cream usually needs beating or whipping before use.

Cooking with it

Starch helps keep the eggs from overcooking and helps the cream set.

On the table

Dishes made with pastry cream

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Mille-feuille

    France

  • Goxua

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include pastry cream.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: pastry cream in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: eggs
Animal origin
From: egg

Family

Related forms

A kind of
custard

Around the world

What pastry cream is called

Names in 30 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    crema pastelera · Crema de repostería · Crema de reposteria · Cremas pasteleras

  • French

    crème pâtissière

  • Italian

    crema pasticcera · crema pasticciera

  • Portuguese

    creme pasteleiro · crema

  • German

    Vanillecreme · Konditorcreme

  • Dutch

    banketbakkersroom · Bakkersroom · Zwitserse room · Vanillebanketbakkersroom

  • Russian

    ванильный крем

  • Persian

    کرم کاستارد

  • Hebrew

    קרם

  • Chinese

    糕点奶油

  • Japanese

    カスタードクリーム

  • Korean

    크렘 파티시에르 · 페이스트리 크림 · 슈크림

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  • Armenian

    Վանիլային կրեմ

  • Basque

    pastel-krema

  • Bulgarian

    Крем „Пастичера“

  • Catalan

    crema pastissera · Crema · Crema de pastisseria

  • Cebuano

    Krema

  • Danish

    kagecreme · konditorcreme

  • Esperanto

    bakaĵa kremo

  • Finnish

    vaniljakreemi

  • Galician

    crema pasteleira

  • Kazakh

    Ваниль кремі

  • Ligurian

    Cremma Pastiççea

  • Luxembourgish

    Crème pâtissière

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    crème pâtissière · konditorkrem · fransk vaniljekrem

  • Romanian

    cremă de patiserie

  • Sicilian

    Crema pasticcera

  • Slovenian

    slaščičarska krema · vanilijeva krerma

  • Swedish

    vaniljkräm

  • Ukrainian

    ванільний крем

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q2048003

Photos

Photo: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons