Pastry Cream

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 cups milk
• 5 egg yolks
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 pour the milk into a medium saucepan and place over medium-high heat. heat almost to boiling point. keep hot.
• 2 put the 5 egg yolks into the mixing bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. beat at medium speed, gradually pouring in the cup of sugar. raise speed to high and beat until mixture thickens and turns a very pale ivory color.
• 3 beat in the flour. while still beating, gradually pour in the hot milk.
• 4 pour and scrape contents of bowl back into saucepan. set over medium-high heat and cook, stirring constantly with a wire whisk. it will get lumpy, but smooth back out again. when mixture comes to boil, reduce heat to low and cook 2 to 3 minutes, still stirring.
• 5 remove from heat and beat in vanilla extract.