Custard pies have a baked crust and a filling made with milk and egg yolks. Popular flavors include chocolate, banana, coconut, and key lime. Boston Cream Pie is actually a cake with custard filling and chocolate icing.
Custard pies are cold pies. The crust is first baked and cooled and can be a flour-based pie crust or a graham cracker crumb crust. Chocolate, banana, coconut and key lime are the most popular types of cream pies. Boston Cream Pie is also popular, however, it’s actually a pie.
Boston custard cakes have two layers of sponge cake filled with the same type of custard found in custard cakes, but the cakes are covered in a chocolate icing. Credit for the invention of the Boston Cream Pie goes to a Chef named Sanzian who named it the Parker House Chocolate Cream Pie. He worked at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1856, which later became the Omni Parker House Hotel. On December 12, 1996, Boston Cream Pie was officially declared a Massachusetts dessert.
Chocolate custard pies, as we know them today, are made by adding chocolate to the custard filling and placing the filling in a pie crust. Bittersweet or unsweetened chocolate is often used in the creme filling. The custard fillings in this dessert are actually made with milk, not cream, and are spiked with the addition of egg yolks.
Banana is one of the most famous cream cakes. Some bakers like to add mashed banana to melted butter and mashed graham crackers to form the crust. Overripe bananas add extra flavor to the crust, but firmer bananas should be used inside the pie so the slices aren’t too mushy. The banana slices are placed on the bottom of the cake and the custard mixture is poured over the top.
Coconut cake is a richly refreshing dessert. Flaked coconut is often added to the custard filling and lightly toasted to complement the finished pie. Coconut could also be used in the graham cracker crust.
Key Lime Pie is another refreshing cream pie. Unlike other pies made with fresh milk, Key Lime Pie is often made with sweetened condensed milk. You can use fresh or bottled lime juice for the cake. Meringue is often atop a Key Lime Pie, but some people prefer whipped cream.
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