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Boston Cream Pie
Two layers of yellow cake filled with pastry cream and covered in chocolate ganache — a Massachusetts classic.
Ingredients
Instructions
Make cakes: mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, add eggs, buttermilk, butter and vanilla.
Bake in two 20cm tins at 175C for 25 minutes. Cool completely.
Make pastry cream: heat milk, whisk yolks with sugar and cornflour.
Pour hot milk over egg mixture, return to heat and stir until thick.
Cool with cling film pressed on surface.
Make ganache: heat cream, pour over chopped chocolate, stir until smooth.
Fill cake layers with pastry cream.
Pour ganache over the top and let it drip down the sides.
Nutrition (estimated)
Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.
