So I have to be honest. The only Boston Cream Pie I have had before was out of a Yoplait container haha, but it just happens to be my favorite flavor! Well, I know this is a cake and not the real Boston Cream Pie, but I love it anyway! It was delicious!
Anyway, I have decided that from now on I am going to increase the photos and decrease the talking so here you go...
Right away I got the feeling that the cupcake idea wasn't going to work out so well....
I had originally planned to fill the cupcakes with the cream and top them with the chocolate glaze but after seeing them I wasn't too sure how that would work out.
New Plan! Mini Cakes!
Pouring the glaze... I went a bit Glaze Crazy!
I made all different sizes... 4 layer, 3 layer and sandwich size
I know it's hard to tell but each layer has an inner cream center while the chocolate cream outer circle.
You can see the cream center a bit better once you get inside but I just could not get the white cream to photograph well against the white cake.
I know they are messy and that they aren't the prettiest cakes in the world but they do taste good!
I didn't want to give up on the cupcake idea completely so I made to following my original plan.
And they came out better then I had thought they would.
Once the wrapper was peeled away they started to look kind of cute but they left behind a VERY messy cupcake wrapper.
There is the cream filling, once again there is the regular pastry cream in there as well you just can't see it yet.
I had a lot of variations haha
To see how the Boston Cream Pie cake came out for Brooke, check out her blog Brookes Bountiful Kitchen.
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Really cute results!!
ReplyDeleteThose cupcakes are freaking adorable. For some reason I didn't love love the flavor of the cake or the texture, but loved the fillings. I think your ratio of cream to cake looks fabulous :)
ReplyDeleteI love your mini layered cakes. They are so cute! With all that delicious glaze dripping over the sides. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteI also had a hard time photographing the vanilla pastry cream in the piece I cut out. It's like it disappeared!
So glad you baked along this week. Now we know how to make sweet delicious pastry cream...Yummy.
I LOVE your little mini cakes. They are so cute! I thought about trying cupcakes, but wasn't sure exactly how I would do it. I thought I would have to do something like you did with the mini cakes and then just opted to do the regular cake so I could try to make a 6-layer cake. I also see you used the Reynolds StayBrite liners. I am a big fan of those, but the last two times I used them the cupcakes are separating form the liners pretty quickly.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! I did the same thing.....kind of a pain, huh? But they turned out adorable!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone!!!
ReplyDeleteLorraine, I completely agree about the liners separating. It was a good thing I didn't end up keeping them on because they were all coming off on there own, but I really like the way they look.
Kristen, YES haha more then kind of! But I am happy with how they came out.
Katie- these are so adorable...love them! I had a bunch of extra custard from the cake (since I made an extra batch of the vanilla) and thought about doing something like this. In the end I didn't have the energy. These are just picture perfect. I envision these with tea at high noon. Really great idea and well executed.
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