Bavarian Cream

  • Level: Intermediate
  • Yield: 6 servings
  • Total: 50 min
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Inactive: 5 min
  • Cook: 35 min
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Ingredients

1 vanilla bean

1 1/4 cups heavy cream

1 tablespoon powdered gelatin

3 tablespoons milk

1/4 cup sugar

5 egg yolks

1 1/4 cups whipped cream

6 sliced strawberries

Directions

  1. Put the split vanilla bean in cream and slowly bring to a boil. Turn off heat and let sit for 1 hour.
  2. Remove bean and scrape out seeds, add them to the cream and discard the pod. Sprinkle the gelatin into the milk and set aside.
  3. Whisk the sugar and egg yolks together. Warm the cream mixture back up and slowly whisk into eggs. Place mixture over simmering water and stir until it is thick enough to coat the back of a wooded spoon. Remove from heat and add milk and gelatin mixture.
  4. Place bowl in ice bath and stir until at room temperature.
  5. Fold in whipped cream and pour mixture into 6 (6-ounce) ramekins. Place in refrigerator for 4 to 5 hours or until mixture is set. Remove from molds and garnish with strawberries.

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Anonymous

This recipe is fantastic! I will definitely make again. Next time, I'll put the milk in wider, more shallow prep bowl to bloom the gelatin. I used 1 1/2 cups of whipping cream to make the whipped cream vs buying a whipped cream, and didn't have a vanilla bean pod so I used a tsp of Vanilla bean paste in the heavy cream. Warming the heavy cream makes a difference in how the egg yolk/sugar mixture thickens. Lastly, the bowl I made the whipped cream in was bigger than the double boiler bowl, so I poured the cooled egg custard evenly over the whipped cream and then folded the two mixtures together. I filled puff pastry horns with this Bavarian cream - delicious!

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