62 pastry cream recipes

Sweet potato and pineapple empanadas in a flaky cream cheese pastry with shredded coconut. Tropical dessert turnovers baked until golden brown.

Creamy lemon pie with sweetened condensed milk and fresh lemon juice in a pastry shell, topped with whipped cream. Just 4 filling ingredients for a silky, tangy dessert.

Rugelach four ways: a single cream cheese pastry dough turned into raspberry-almond crescents, layered chocolate-pecan squares, apricot pockets and honey-pecan triangles. Holiday cookie tray showstopper.

Tender sour cream pastry rolled with apricot jam, walnuts, and raisins into elegant strudel cookies. These make-ahead sweets are perfect for holiday cookie trays.

Fanky (faworki) are Polish deep-fried pastry diamonds made with egg yolks, sour cream, wine, and butter, dusted with powdered sugar. Thin, crispy, and addictive.

Cream cheese rugelach filled with cinnamon sugar, walnuts, and raisins rolled into flaky crescent pastries. A classic Jewish bakery cookie with a tender, buttery dough.

Homemade maple syrup ice cream served in crisp sablé pastry barquettes with a maple custard sauce. A French-style plated dessert made from real vanilla beans and pure maple syrup.

Flaky crescent roll pastries stuffed with a sweet cream cheese, vanilla, and lemon filling. Just 5 ingredients, 25 minutes, and 16 golden little bites that vanish the moment they hit the plate.

Raspberry gems are delicate sandwich cookies with a sour cream pastry dough, raspberry jam filling, dipped in semi-sweet chocolate and sprinkled with almonds. A gorgeous holiday cookie tin addition.

Classic vanilla meringue kisses filled with silky chocolate ganache: crisp shells piped from star-tipped pastry bags, slow-baked low, then thumbed open and spooned full of melted bittersweet cream.

Mini brownie cups with a cream cheese pastry shell filled with melted semi-sweet chocolate and chopped walnuts. Bite-sized treats baked in mini muffin tins that combine fudgy brownie with a buttery crust.

Fresh fruit tart with kiwi, strawberries, and bananas on a whole wheat crust with orange juice glaze. A lighter dessert with no cream filling and a rustic free-form pastry base.

Oatmeal pie crust adds rolled oats to a classic shortening pastry for nutty flavor and a sturdier base. Holds up to wet fillings like pumpkin, custard, or cream pies without going soggy.

This cornbread is delicious, use cream style corn, stir in scallions and cheddar cheese, cheesy and moist.