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Pistachio cream

Name: Pistachio cream
Prep time: 33 min
Total time: 33 min
Yield: 700 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 200 g butter; 200 g pistachio powder or paste; 2 eggs; 1 tablespoon cornflour; 1 tablespoon rum; 200 g confectioner's custard (crème pâtissière, or french pastry cream)

Very similar to almond cream, pistachio cream is ideal for filling or topping all kinds of cakes and tarts. Just like almond cream, it swells during cooking.

321 K 6× 3.9/5 (75 reviews)694656

Duration

35 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 4^th 2012

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

For 700 g, you will need:

1 200 g butter
2 200 g pistachio powder or paste
3 2 eggs
4 1 tablespoon cornflour
5 1 tablespoon rum
6 200 g confectioner's custard (crème pâtissière, or french pastry cream)
Total weight: 730 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

35 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

Put 200 g butter cut into small pieces in the bowl of the mixer and 200 g pistachio powder or paste, and knead briefly on low speed to soften.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 10 min.

Add 2 eggs and knead again on medium speed for 5 minutes.

Add 1 tablespoon cornflour and 1 tablespoon rum, then continue mixing for a further 5 minutes.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 15 min.

Continue mixing and incorporate 200 g confectioner's custard (crème pâtissière, or french pastry cream) a tablespoonful at a time.

Continue mixing until the mixture becomes fairly light in texture (about 10 minutes).

Stage 4 - ⌛ 3 min.

Keep refrigerated in a sealed container.

Remarks

This cream will keep for a few days in the fridge in a sealed container, but it also freezes well. You can then take out of the freezer just the quantity you need for your recipe.

Keeping: Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	17 g RDI=27 %	54 g RDI=21 %	48 g RDI=66 %	408 kcal RDI=20 %	1,709 kJ RDI=20 %
Whole recipe	129 g RDI=199 %	400 g RDI=151 %	351 g RDI=481 %	2,977 kcal RDI=149 %	12,468 kJ RDI=149 %

Whole recipe

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, Nuts, egg

How much will it cost?

For 700 g

3.95 €

Per Pistachio cream

0.05 €

Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

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Pistachio powder or paste

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Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream)

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The 6 comments already posted on this recipe

Same as frangipane is almond cream + custard, do you think one could make a pistachio cream by stopping before Stage 3?
Posted by Horacio march 30^th 2021 at 11:16 n° 6
Yes, you can.
Posted by jh Auteur march 30^th 2021 at 13:51 n° 5
There is no heat in these recipe ? how is that with the eggs in there
Posted by lug june 24^th 2014 at 17:29 n° 4
This is because the cream is for cooking in recipes.
Posted by jh Auteur june 25^th 2014 at 09:00 n° 3
You forgot to add the pistachio powder to your recipe!!!
Posted by aishah october 3^rd 2012 at 20:43 n° 2
Oups! OK now corrected, thank you for the warning.
Posted by jh Auteur october 4^th 2012 at 08:21 n° 1

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