Boston Cream Pie

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I completely agree 100% with lisa lisa 7_1958. Everything she said about the cake is true.

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The recipe clearly states that it makes TWO cakes. So all those who had twice as much pastry cream and ganache obviously tried to make only one cake. I think the confusion is in the size of the cake pans. If you use a commercial 8" cake pan, they are 4 inches deep, Not like the 2 inch deep pans used for layer cakes. Then you end up with two 4 in. high cakes. Leave at least an inch border when hollowing out the inside of each cake, which gives you about a 6" x 2 1/2 " layer you've removed and then can cut up into cubes for the top . Fill both cakes with half the cream. Put the cubes on top and then cover each with half the ganache. You end up with TWO beautiful, luscious Boston Pies. Hope this helps clear up the confusion because this is an awesome recipe which produces 2 spectacular cakes (pies.

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Very difficult to rate this cake. Its a 5-star for taste, but only a 1-star for recipe portions and following. I had at least half the pastry creme left over and at least half the chocolate ganache left over. Perhaps if there were actually 2 separate cakes, making 4 of the 8" rounds the portions would have been correct.

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM, was that I carved out too much of the center cake to make as much room possible for the creme and as a result the thin walls of the cake eventually broke apart from the weight of the creme, the cake cubes and the ganache. So, the gorgeous style of the cake eventually became a trifle, sort of. WATCH THE SIZE OF THE CAKE WALLS!! It was deliciously fantastic, but turned into a mess.

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Beautifully and wonderfully made!

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A terrible rendition of the recipe. The proportions were all off; way too much chocolate , we only used about a quarter of what we made same with the pastry cream. The cake was like a sweet corn cake, very heavy and rich, not at all cake like, more like bread. Also, the recipe was poorly written not telling you what order to add the ingredients or what part of the recipe should be prepared first or last etc... We ended up throwing out the cake , and what a waste of money!!! It took about 4 1/2 hours to make it and it is pretty comprehensive. Do not prepare it on a cake stand, prepare it on a cookie sheet like the woman did on the show because it is a total mess. I would use regular white cake recipe and call for only a quarter of pastry cream and a quarter of the ganache. All in all don't use this recipe!

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Oooh boy this was awesome. I've never had it before and I joked with me husband that if we go out and order this for our dessert we will think it doen't taste like I made. A hint though the chocolate ganache could be cut by half way too much but we used the leftovers for my daughter's truffle's A keeper for sure Mmmm :

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I remade using the Cake Bible's yellow cake, Bobby's custard (really good and Bobby's ganache. I made the cake like Eunice's - a show stopper! have made it twice this way and it ROCKS!

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I made the cake after watching the review, it was AWESOME. Moist from the custard, my custard didn't set properly and it ended up soaking into the cake making it moist like a tres leches cake but that just made the cake more deliciously gooey, Especially with the chocolate ganache topping. The cake part itself was very sweet, but the strong vanilla flavor made the sweetness less overwhelming. It is still so sweet that I can only eat one slice at a time (a second slice would have negative marginal benefit BUT I Love this cake and plan to make it for one of my siblings on their birthday.
my favorite three aspects of the cake:
*decadant chocolate ganache
* moist strong vanilla flavored custard
* fun construction and a good cake that can hold up to the carving

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I haven't made this yet, but I think I might try it out this weekend to take to a friends house, wish me luck! lol
To those who said this wasn't the recipe Bobby Flay used, it's the recipe for the Boston Cream Pie the woman made that he challenged to the throwdown. It looked amazing! :

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I just watched this episode on dvr! This is not even close to the recipe that Bobby makes! Geesh food network - you need to fix this! Bobby's site has the recipe the way he made it.