It is not only used as the filling in fruit tarts but it is also the cream piped into eclairs and other French pastries. This makes pastry cream a great recipe to master and use again and again.

The classic Napoleon Dessert (mille-feuille) includes flaky puff pastry layered with creamy vanilla pastry cream ... recipe on the regular ever since. The Napoleon is everything I love about most ...

She does so in her new cookbook, French Pastry 101: Learn the Art of Classic Baking with 60 Beginner-Friendly Recipes ... choosing between cakes or ice cream. She'll probably end up buying ...