Boston Cream

After making a gelatin poke cake and going on and about how I didn’t like the lime flavor, I moved on to the pudding variation. Much better! Now I’m officially a poke cake fan. The scratch poke cake was really good, but the point of poke cake is to take advantage of various cake mix [...]
Published on March 15, 2012

If you haven’t seen the article, it’s worth buying the magazine for that alone. Andrea Gerry re-works the cake, which she says is often too dry, makes a less runny filling, and pours on a glaze that won’t harden or turn brittle like some lackluster Boston Cream Pie toppings. At the end of the day, I’d say it was one of the best Boston Cream Pies I’ve made.
Published on February 28, 2011

Chocolate Boston Cream Pie is a chocolate layer cake with vanilla cream filling and chocolate glaze
Published on October 13, 2010

If you’ve ever received Cuisine at Home magazine’s sample issue, this Boston Cream Pie Cake might have caught your eye. Unlike regular Boston Cream Pies, it has an extra chocolate layer in the middle which makes for a dramatic presentation — or at least as dramatic as one could imagine for Boston Cream Pie. Boston [...]
Published on September 21, 2009

I had some time on my hands today so I made a new cake. It’s like a Boston Cream Pie, but the filling is made with coconut milk and the cake is a soft chocolate sponge cake. If you try it, let me know. The recipe is so long that I almost feel guilty posting [...]
Published on May 1, 2009

If you haven’t bought Bakewise yet, you can find the recipe here. I scaled Shirley’s recipe down a bit and made a smaller version. UPDATE: Looks like the original version is no longer at the link. I’ll try to see if it’s been posted on-line. If not, buy the book!!! It’s worth it.
Published on March 4, 2009

I haven’t made this yet, as we still have a whole pie to finish, but next time I might try this one. It looks like everyone gave it 5 stars except for one person who seems to have forgot to add any stars.
Published on June 12, 2008

Yesterday afternoon I decided to make a Boston Cream Pie. It’s a dessert Todd likes and I had most of the ingredients in the house. What I did not have, was a lot of time, so I did something quite unusual and picked the first recipe I came across. It turned out to be this [...]
Published on June 12, 2008