I chose a ricotta filling for this tart instead of the
classic vanilla pastry cream as wanted a quick recipe that is easy to prepare and could play a little with the flavors.
1
cup Vanilla Pastry Cream (in addition to the pastry cream used to fill the cream puffs, if you are making them from scratch)
When the puffs are cool, use a pastry bag with a small tip to poke a hole into each cream puff and fill them with
Vanilla Pastry Cream (see recipe below).
Smooth
the vanilla pastry cream on top of the banana slices, smoothing the surface.
You could replace the pastry cream with coconut whipped cream (so delicious makes a premade version) but it will not be as rich in flavor as if you use
the vanilla pastry cream, and the end result will be a bit drier.
Vanilla Pastry Cream can be used for so many different desserts.
And finally, I made the actual Vols - au - Vent and used them in a version of one of my all time favorite desserts: napoleons with homemade nectarine jam,
vanilla pastry cream and fresh nectarines.
Vanilla Pastry Cream: 1 cup Half and Half 3 Large Egg Yokes 1/3 cup Powdered Honey 2 Tablespoons Cornstarch 1 Tablespoon White Spelt Flour or White Flour Pinch of Sea Salt 1 Tablespoon Unsalted Butter 2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
I also don't understand the reviewers who had trouble with
the vanilla pastry cream.
At Willa Jean in New Orleans, their weekends - only buns are made from Danish dough that's spread with
vanilla pastry cream and ground rose petals -LRB-!)
Dorie's recipe calls for
a vanilla pastry cream to be piped inside the éclair, but I went a different way and filled the eclairs with a Nutella Cream Cheese filling — I heart Nutella.