How to Make Boston Cream Pie From Crime Scene Kitchen - Boston Cream Pie Recipe - Parade

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(Theresa Greco)

Bakers turn detectives in FOX’s latest series, Crime Scene Kitchen, hosted by Joel McHale. A disheveled kitchen provides the backdrop for each episode’s missing dessert and ingredients left behind guide teams in sleuthing out clues and recreating the missing sweat treat.

Although problem solving skills are top of the list, celebrity Chef Curtis Stone and cake influencer Yolanda Gampp also judge the team’s desserts based on technical know-how and imagination.

Related: Meet the 12 Baking Duos Who Will Battle It Out on FOX’s Crime Scene Kitchen

In the first episode of Crime Scene Kitchen, the following items were found at the scene of the crime:

• Clean pie plates
• Dirty cake pans
• Unopened raspberries
• Eggs
• A pot with remnants of pastry cream
• Chocolate smeared on the counter

From these clues, bakers rationalized what the missing dessert might be and attempted to recreate it.

For this cooking the episode recipe remake, I’ve included my favorite recipe for Boston Cream Pie.

What is Boston Cream Pie?

Boston cream pie isn’t actually a pie. It’s a classic American cake featuring a vanilla butter cake base layered with homemade vanilla pastry cream and topped with a thick chocolate glaze. Originating in Boston, in the mid-nineteenth century, this stunning dessert was coined a pie because at the time pie tins were what one used to for baking.

How do you make Boston Cream Pie?

The pastry cream is made first so it has time to cool and set before being added to the cake. Although it seems daunting, pastry cream is just a combination of egg yolks, sugar and milk that are thickened with cornstarch and cooked in a double broiler on the stove.

Once the cake and cream are made, they are layered together and topped with a chocolate ganache; a combination of semi-sweet chocolate and cream.

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Boston Cream Pie is truly a classic cake that everyone should try making at least once! Enjoy this delicious dessert and catch Crime Scene Kitchen Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Want more Cooking the Episode recipes? Try these from Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy and Bobby and Giada in Italy:

Boston Cream Pie

By Theresa Greco

Ingredients

Chocolate Ganache :

• 10 oz good quality dark chocolate finely chopped
• ¾ cup heavy cream
• ¼ cup unsalted butter very soft, but not melted

Pastry Cream:

• 2 cups milk divided
• ½ tsp vanilla
• ¼ cup cornstartch
• ⅓ cup granulated sugar
• 2 large egg yolks

Vanilla Butter Cake:

• 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 2¼ tsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp salt
• ¾ cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 1½ cup granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs room temperature
• 1½ tsp vanilla
• 1 cup buttermilk or whole milk, room temperature

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Directions

Chocolate Ganache :

1. Place chopped chocolate in a large heatproof bowl.

2. Place heavy cream into a small saucepan and cook over med heat, stirring often, until it just starts to simmer. Do not boil.

3. Pour hot cream over chopped chocolate and cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let sit 5 minutes.

4. Stir gently with a spatula until completely smooth. Stir in softened butter. If needed, place over a double boiler and stir until all chocolate and butter has melted.

5. Place plastic wrap directly on top of chocolate ganache.

Pastry Cream :

1. Place 1 ½ cups milk and vanilla into a medium saucepan. Cook over high heat, stirring often until it just starts to simmer. Remove from heat.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk remaining ½ cup milk, egg yolks, sugar, and cornstarch.

3. While whisking vigorously, slowly pour the hot milk into the egg mixture.

4. Return mixture to saucepan and cook over high heat, whisking constantly, until it thickens and comes to a boil.

5. Place plastic wrap directly on top of custard to prevent a skin from forming. Cool to room temperature then place in refrigerator a couple hours to set.

Vanilla Butter Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 8" cake rounds and line with parchment.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, and salt until well combined. Set aside.

3. Using a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on med-high until pale and fluffy.

4. Add eggs one at a time fully incorporating after each addition.

5. Add vanilla.

6. Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour (3 additions of flour and 2 of milk).

7. Bake for 30-35mins or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean.

8. Place cakes on wire rack to cool for 10mins then turn out onto wire rack.

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Serves 10-12.

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June 01, 2021 at 08:30PM
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