While exact recipes for crème pâtissière vary depending on the intended use (ie. This cake is made using crème pâtissière, a creamy custard that is used in many French desserts. The recipe I’m using today is based on the custard used in the famous (giant!) French vanilla custard tart, Flan Pâtissier, with chocolate added.
Here’s what you need to make this Chocolate custard cake. Big call – but I’m standing by it!Īlso – proof of creaminess: Stopped in the middle of hoovering down this cake so I could show you how creamy the custard is. Numerous attempts later, I gave up but out of the fails came this glorious chocolate custard cake that is probably one of my best baking inventions ever. This chocolate custard cake is an invention that started out as a chocolate version of a Blueberry custard cake I shared a few months ago, a recipe where custard is baked on top of a vanilla sponge layer. Did I just convince myself this is the perfect cake for any occasion? 😂 It is a real custard, after all, nothing like the fake stuff sold in cartons at the store which is a sad imitation of the real deal.īut this is not overly rich and definitely not overly sweet.ĭecadent enough for special occasions, easy enough to make for a morning tea at work. But when you eat it, it’s gloriously creamy. You can cut it into neat slices (like… cake!). It’s as chocolatey and creamy as it looks. I feel like I don’t need to say much about this cake because the photos and recipe video do all the talking for me. Look at all that creamy chocolate custard! How can this not get you excited?! Chocolate custard cake
A cross between a chocolate mousse cake and a chocolate Flan Patissier, it’s deeply chocolatey, ultra creamy, yet not overly rich, and shockingly straightforward to make. Whether you consider this a giant chocolate tart or chocolate custard cake, we will agree it’s one of the most delicious desserts you will ever make.
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