What is Boston Cream Pie?
Boston Cream Pie is not pie, though it is quite delicious if you’re a fan of chocolate desserts with a creamy center. The dessert is actually a cake, usually a single round layer of golden cake, pound cake or white cake, split in half and filled with vanilla custard. The top layer of the cake is placed back on the pudding filled half, and then the cake is covered with a thin or thick chocolate glaze. The glaze should artfully drip onto the sides of the cake. The early inspiration for Boston Cream Pie was likely a mid 19th century recipe for a dessert called pudding pie cake. Ironically, the recipe was published in a New York and not a Boston newspaper, and the recipe didn’t suggest the decadent layer of chocolate. Instead it was merely topped with powdered sugar. This might make a good alternative if you’d like to serve this creamy cake to those who can’t eat chocolate. The chocolate on the top of the cake is credited to Harvey D. Parker, who opened a Boston restaurant called Parker Ho
