Basic Cream Filling Recipes

CREAM FILLING

Steps:

• Combine flour and milk. Bring to a boil and stir until thickened. Cool completely.
• Cream everything else with an electric mixer. Beat in the cooled milk until the sugar is dissolved.
• Use as you desire. It tastes alot like a hostess cake filling, and would go great in chocolate cupcakes.

CREAM FILLING

Steps:

• Start whipping the whipping cream with electric mixer on high.
• Add in the powder sugar.
• As it starts to thicken, add in the powder vanilla pudding.
• Continue mixing till smooth and creamy.
• Keep your cream filling refrigerated

OLD ENGLISH CREAM PIE FILLING

Steps:

• In a sauce pan, combine milk and butter. Bring to a boil. In a medium bowl, combine eggs, sugar, cornstarch and salt. Slowly whisk 1 cup of hot milk mixture into egg mixture. Gradually whisk egg mixture back to remaining milk mixture. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Allow to cool.

BASIC CREAM PIE FILLING

Steps:

• Whisk all of your ingredients together in a pan.
• Cook on high until it is almost to a boil.
• Reduce heat to medium and take off when it has started to boil again.
• Cool thoroughly with plastic wrap placed directly on top of filling.
• Spoon into 2 pre-baked and cooled pie shells.
• Note: Use the flavor of jello pudding to correspond to the pie you are making, banana for banana cream, chocolate for chocolate cream etc. Sliced bananas, coconut, grated chocolate etc. can be added to the filling or the bottom of the shells before adding cream filling.
• Bonus note: Mix 1 cup Coolwhip with 1 pint of whipping cream after whipping to stabilize the cream. It will taste like fresh cream and will not get watery. You can cover your cream pies in this whipping cream and it will stay nice for as long as the pie lasts.

CREAM PIE

Steps:

• In a heavy-bottomed medium saucepan, mix together sugar, flour, and salt.
• In a separate mixing bowl, beat together the egg yolks and milk. Whisk the egg mixture into the dry ingredients in the saucepan. Continue whisking over low heat until the mixture coats the back of a spoon and is smooth and thick.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla. Cook's Note: Add any variations at this point.
• Allow the mixture to cool and pour into the baked pie shell. Chill the pie completely and top with fresh whipped cream or other desired topping.
• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, mix together the flour and the salt; cut or work the butter into the flour with your fingers or a pastry blender until you have large pea sized chunks scattered throughout. Alternatively, pulse the dough in a food processor, or mix in a stand mixer with the paddle attachment on low speed.
• Add the ice water slowly while stirring with a fork, or in the food processor or mixer, until just combined. Be careful not to overwork the dough. Divide the dough into two disks, flatten and refrigerate each for at least 15 minutes.
• Roll out one chilled pie dough to fit a 9-inch pie plate. Reserve the second pie dough disc for another use. Transfer dough to pie plate, pressing the dough lightly into the plate; trim the edges. Dock the dough with the prongs of a fork evenly over the bottom of the pie plate. Line the docked dough with aluminum foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans.
• Bake the pie crust until the edges are brown and golden, about 15 minutes Remove from the oven and remove the weights. Return crust to the oven to finish baking for another 5 minutes.

BASIC CREAM FILLING

Steps:

• Heat the milk in a heavy-bottomed pan until very hot but not boiling. Mix the sugar, flour and salt together in a bowl, stir in the hot milk and beat until well blended. Pour back into the pan and continue to stir vigorously over low heat for 4-5 min., until very thick and smooth. Add the egg yolks and cook for a few more minutes. Cool, stirring from time to time, then add the vanilla. You will have about enough filling for an 8 or 9 inch three-layer cake. Banana cream filling - omit the vanilla. Mash 1 large banana and beat it until smooth. Add 2 tbsp lemon juice, stir the mixture into the cooled filling.

VANILLA BUTTERCREAM FILLING

Steps:

• Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Reduce speed to medium, and beat in confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, scraping down side of bowl as necessary, until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add vanilla, and beat until smooth.

VANILLA CREAM FILLING

Steps:

• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and shortening until well combined. With mixer on low speed, gradually add the confectioners' sugar, and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the vanilla, and beat to combine. Set aside at room temperature until ready to use.

EASY CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine cracker crumbs and 1/4 cup sugar with melted butter. Using the bottom of a glass, press cracker mixture onto bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. deep-dish pie plate. Bake until set, 12-15 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack., Meanwhile, sprinkle gelatin over cold water; let stand 5 minutes. Beat cream cheese and remaining sugar until smooth. Slowly beat in cream and vanilla. Microwave gelatin on high until melted, about 10 seconds; beat into cream cheese mixture. Transfer filling to crust. Refrigerate, covered, until set, about 3 hours., If desired, top with mixed fresh berries.