Last week I went on a much needed vacation to Sunny San Diego. I had a great time there with my family. While I was there me and my mom made an AMAZING Boston Cream Pie. My mom found this recipe after watching Throwdown with Bobby Flay.
Here is the recipe
Ingredients
White Cake:
3 large eggs
5 large egg whites (reserve yolks for the pastry cream)
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons whole milk
2 tablespoons vanilla
2 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 1/2 cups pastry flour
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
1 tablespoon salt
3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
Chocolate Ganache:
1 pound bittersweet chocolate
1 pound semisweet chocolate
1 pound unsalted butter
2 cups heavy cream
Pastry Cream, chilled, recipe follows
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and line 2 (8-inch) cake pans.
For the cake: Whisk together the eggs, egg whites, milk, and vanilla and set aside.
Place the sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Add in the softened butter and half of the egg mixture to the mixer and beat on medium speed until batter is very smooth, about 4 minutes.
Add the remaining egg mixture in 3 additions, scraping down the bowl after each addition, and beating for 2 minutes afterwards.
Portion out the batter evenly into the prepared pans. Bake until the cake springs back when lightly touched in center, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pan for 10 minutes, and then turn out to cool completely. Can be made a day ahead.
The cake is super yummy and moist, its like a pound cake.
For the ganache: Place the ingredients into a heatproof bowl and place over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Whisk until melted and smooth.
For the ganache: Place the ingredients into a heatproof bowl and place over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Whisk until melted and smooth.
4 cups whole milk, infused with thyme and orange zest, strained
1 cup sugar, divided
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
5 large egg yolks
6 tablespoons cornstarch
1 1/2 cups heavy cream, cold
Place most of the milk, half of the sugar, and vanilla into a saucepan and bring to a low simmer. Meanwhile, whisk together the rest of the milk, eggs, yolks, the remaining sugar, and cornstarch. Temper the egg mixture with 1/3 of the hot milk, whisk well, and pour back into the saucepan. Over medium heat, continue to cook and whisk until the custard is thick and starts to bubble. Continue whisking and cooking for 10 more seconds. Strain the pastry cream through a sieve, pushing through with a spatula, into a clean mixing bowl. Immediately cover the entire custard surface with plastic wrap and cool before using.
When the pastry cream is cool, remove the plastic wrap, insert the beater attachment into the stand mixer, and beat the pastry cream on medium speed until smooth. Remove the cream to a mixing bowl. Whisk the heavy cream to stiff peaks and fold into the pastry cream in 2 additions.
Place the cooled cake on a cake round. Trim the top of the cake and hollow out the middle to hold the pastry cream (basically you want it to look like a big tire, this is were you are going to put all the cream, so the bigger the hole the more cream). Cut the trimmed cake into big chunks and set aside. Place the lightened pastry cream into the cake, creating a small mound in the middle. Pile the cake pieces on top of the pastry cream. Pour warm ganache over the entire surface until covered. Let the cake rest for 2 to 3 hours before serving.
Its a tough one but so worth it! Next time I think I will leave out the thyme and orange zest from the cream. Its not that I didn't like it, but I am just a strait up cream kind of girl.
