white chocolate pastry cream

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 6 egg yolks
• 5 tablespoons white sugar
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 2 cups milk
• 1 vanilla bean, halved
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 3 ounces white chocolate

Recipe

• in a medium bowl, whisk egg yolks and sugar until pale yellow. whisk in corn starch. set aside.
• in a stainless steel saucepan, bring milk and vanilla bean to a boil, remove from heat and remove vanilla bean. stir a small amount of the hot milk into the egg yolk mixture. return milk to heat and while constantly stirring with a wooden spoon, slowly add the egg mixture to milk. mixture will thicken.
• allow to just come to a boil, remove from heat and stir in butter. put mixture through a sieve into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap (this keeps mixture from forming a skin over top). cool slightly.
• stir in melted white chocolate, cover and refrigerate until ready to assemble pie. this pastry cream is used in the elegant white chocolate banana cream pie.