364 pastry cream recipes

Hawaiian delight cookies with a cream cheese pastry shell filled with macadamia nuts, coconut, and brown sugar. A mini tart-style cookie baked in muffin pans.

Old-fashioned butterscotch cream pie with a deep brown sugar custard, butter and vanilla finish, topped with fresh whipped cream. Classic American pastry-shop dessert from scratch.

Easy crescent Danish rolls with sweet cream cheese filling, fruit jam centers, and a vanilla glaze drizzle. A bakery-style breakfast pastry shortcut using refrigerated crescent dough.

Flaky cream cheese pastry turnovers filled with homemade apricot filling, sealed like hand pies, and iced with powdered sugar.

Aunt Bee's apple pie tucks sliced apples in a pre-cooked sauce of orange juice, honey, cinnamon, and butter inside a tender cream cheese pastry. A Southern-style fall pie with a pre-cooked filling.

European sour cream apple pie with a tender cream cheese pastry, maple-sweetened green apples arranged in a spiral, and a tangy sour cream maple topping dusted with nutmeg. Single-crust open-face pie.

Tender cream cheese pastry filled with peanut butter and apple butter, twisted into golden strips. These elegant cookies bake in 10 minutes and taste like breakfast pastries meets peanut butter cookies.

Jam tarts press tender cream cheese pastry around dollops of fruit jam for bite-size, flaky tea-time pastries with golden browned edges. A 7-ingredient throwback for the cookie tin.

A no-bake coconut cream pie with a sticky pecan praline layer on the bottom, fluffy vanilla pudding filling loaded with flaked coconut, all in a pre-baked pastry shell. Chill, slice, and swoon.

Zwiebelkuchen, a traditional German onion tart with sauteed onions and bacon in a rich egg cream custard baked in a buttery homemade pastry crust. Served warm in wedges.

Thai mung bean pastries (khanom thuay) with a sweet mung bean flour base topped with coconut-rice flour cream and toasted yellow mung beans. A colorful, no-bake Thai dessert.

Boston cream pie with two split sponge layers, thick vanilla pastry custard, and a warm chocolate glaze that drips down the sides. The Massachusetts state dessert built from scratch.

Crispy bacon and Swiss cheese on a flaky pastry crust, topped with a creamy egg and sour cream custard. A puffy, golden breakfast pizza the whole family will love.

Single-crust maple pie with cream cheese pastry, thin-sliced Granny Smith apples, and maple-sour cream topping. Nutmeg finish adds warmth.

Individual chicken pot pies with rosemary-infused cream sauce, sugar snap peas, carrots, and pearl onions under a puffed golden pastry lid. Dinner party-worthy comfort food.

Italian-style pineapple ricotta cheesecake with a tender shortcrust pastry, a hidden layer of crushed pineapple, and a light ricotta-cream-cheese filling lifted with whipped egg whites.