Benjamins Boston Cream Pie Recipe

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 1 ½ cup granulated sugar
• ½ lb butter
• 4 large eggs
• 2 ¼ cups baking flour (sifted)
• 3 tsp baking powder
• ¾ cup milk
• 3 tsp Benjamins Vanilla Berry

For the Pastry Cream

Put to warm 1 1/3 cup milk

In a bowl whisk together until thick and pale yellow:

• ⅓ cup sugar
• 2 Tbs flour
• 2 Tbs cornstarch
• 4 large egg yolks

Method

Cake

In a mixing bowl, Beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy scraping bowl twice. Beat eggs until fluff and has a light colour. Put mixer on low speed. Add egg to butter mixture, scrape bowl,

Mix until fully combine.

Add ½ of the flour, baking powder, and milk and mix approximately 1 minute

Scrape bowl, add remaining flour, baking powder, milk and Benjamins Mixed Essence

Continue to mix on low speed scraping bowl once approximately 2 mins.

Pour in two 7” greased and flour dusted pans. Bake approximately 45 mins. Or until toothpick come up clean when stick

In the middle of the cake

Pastry Cream

Slowly pour a third of the warm milk into the egg mixture, stirring to combine.

Pour the egg mixture back into the pot and cook, whisking constantly over low

Heat making sure to scarp the bottom and corners to prevent burning. Cook for

Another 45 seconds.

Add 2 tsp Benjamins Mixed Essence food flavouring. Mix with a spatula until

Combine. Put in a clean bowl, cover with wax paper until cool.