Boston Cream Pie

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Would help if the recipe specified using a 2-inch deep cake pan. The cake overflowed my regular cake pan, then fell when it came out of the oven - after 40 minutes (not 25-30. Why the folding instructions for the parchment? Why not just say, "line the pan with a parchment round"? The custard became incredibly thick and lumpy after 10 minutes, I couldn't get the lumps out even after pressing through sieve. Other instructions are inexact. After beating the eggs and sugar in a stand mixer filled with the whisk attachment, instructions then say to fold in flour mixture, then add milk, oil, and vanilla and "beat with the mixer until combined." Beat with the whisk attachment still? Or change to a beater blade? Maybe this caused the excess air in my cake, which caused the cake to fall when it came out of the oven?

Boston Cream Pie is traditionally filled with chilled pastry cream, and there are many superior recipes for pastry cream out there.

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Cake delicious! Pudding okay. Dont know what happened with the glaze. Have made this recipe twice andglaze was runny and soaked into the cake and did not look good. Looked nothing like the picture. Would make again but find different recipe for chocolate.

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Not worth the effort. Cake was ok, custard mediocre, glaze ok. All in all I would not make again. For the effort involved in the custard I could have used vanilla pudding and I think rec'd better product.

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I should have paid closer attention to previous reviewers. It was delicious, but the cake took much longer to bake & was still underdone in the center (I had to shell it out & then put the cut pieces back together Fortunately this was for a family dessert, so presentation wasn't so important. The flavor was delicious. I used good quality vanilla and chocolate and was very pleased with the cake, custard and ganache.

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I had to bake it for almost an hour, but I haven't tested my oven to see if that was the issue. Pretty easy recipe, and super yummy!

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Very disappointing. The cake was tasteless and the pudding just so-so. Lots of time and effort, not to mention pricey ingredients, for a mediocre dessert.

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The cake and pudding are wonderful. I didn't care for the semi-sweet chocolate so we scraped it off and I remade the glaze with milk chocolate. It seeped into the cake and looks pretty bad (the top layer of the cake was removed with the semi-sweet chocolate layer, but it was delicious. The cake wasn't too bad to make, but I had to heat the pudding for closer to 35 minutes before it thickened up. It was totally worth it though. I love this recipe and will be making it again.

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As others have noted, this recipe takes a long time to make. I made the cake the day before, the pudding the day before and kept the pudding in the fridge. Went to assemble it and the pudding was not set and it became a runny mess and my dessert was basically ruined. Not sure what I did wrong but I followed the directions to a T - I'm afraid the pudding didn't cook long enough or ????

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This recipe is AWESOME!! super tasty!! I had a little trouble with the filling, but I'm sure next time I make it there will be no problems! Really fun to make, delicious when finished. I've decided next time I make this I'm doing cupcakes instead! Put the custard in the cupcakes before you frost them with the chocolate, YUM!

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Don't know what I did wrong, but the cake was tough.. you almost have to cut it with a knife.. pudding and frosting is good.