Strawberry Bavarian Cream Recipe – Creme’ Bavarios

Strawberry Bavarian Cream Recipe – Creme Bavaria

The Classic strawberry Bavarian cream often called Creme Bavaria is a pastry cream based dessert with the luxury of whipped cream and strawberry. Rich, delicious but super easy to create. A few extra steps in the making but a truly impressive desert if you want to impress friend and family.

Technically Bavarian cream also known as Bavaria is a dessert similar to pastry cream, thickened with gelatin instead of flour or cornstarch which is a custard sauce thickened with eggs.  (definition taken from Wikipedia)  and that’s exactly what we’re going to do!

Let’s talk ingredients and Substitutes

• Gelatin – I often substitute gelatin with Agar Agar to make this vegetarian. I don’t see the process chaning much – you can continue with the process the same way as shown below.
• Eggless – Yes you can make this an eggless dessert – just replace the classic French Pastry Cream with my eggless pastry cream and use agar agar in place of gelatin.

Simple and Easy

I know this looks like so much to do but truly it’s really a very simple and easy recipe to make. It’s does require a bit of organization and attention but once you done it a few times… piece of cake. I promise.

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Progress pictures?

Now I did a very detailed post with progress pictures for my Strawberry Bavarian Cream Cake Recipe – and if you look at that post – you will see all the steps and process is the same.

Recipe – Strawberry Bavarian Cream Recipe – Creme Bavaria.

Makers 12 to 15 depending on size of dessert cups

Ingredients 

For the Pastry Cream

• Whole milk – 375 ml (1 1/2 cup)
• White sugar – 100 grams (1/2 cup)
• Egg yolks – 4 nos
• Cornstarch – 2 tbsp
• Vanilla – 1 tsp

For the Strawberry Bavarian Cream

• Whipping Cream – 250 ml (1 cup)
• Strawberries blended- 2 cups
• White Sugar – 2 tbsp
• Gelatin – 2 tbsp (see notes above for substitutes)

For the Strawberry Mirror Glaze 

• Strawberries blended – 1/2 cup (about 2 cups whole strawberries)
• Lemon Juice – 1 tbsp
• White Sugar – 2 tbsp
• Cornstarch – 1 tsp
• Water – 1/4 cup
• Strawberry extract- 1/4 tsp (optional) or Strawberry liquor – 1 tbsp

Method

Prepare Strawberries for Bavarian Cream

• Place two cups blended strawberry in a sauce pan with 2 tbsp sugar.
• Cook on low until it is reduced to half the quantity –
• Once done – add the gelatin and keep warm.

Prepare Pastry Cream

• Bring milk to almost boiling.
• In a bowl add the egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch and vanilla. Whisk well until nice and foamy.
• Add hot milk to the whipped eggs a few tablespoon at a time to avoid the eggs scrambling
• Once all the milk is incorporated in to the eggs – pour the mixture back into the milk pot and cook on low heat.
• Stir continuously until the mixture thickens to a thick custard. This will happen quickly since the quantity of yolks to milk is high.
  Note: Do not leave custard unattended to avoid curdling.
• One custard is ready – add the prepared strawberry gelatin mixture.
• Add 2 drops of pink food color if you want
• Strain this mixture while still warm into a clean bowl.
• Cover with cling wrap and set aside in a warm place.

Prepare Strawberry Mirror Glaze

• Place blended strawberries, lemon juice and sugar in a sauce pan over low heat
• In a separate bowl combine cornstarch and water.
• Add cornstarch mixture to the strawberries
• Cook on low for a minute until thick
• Strain and set aside – keep warm until ready to use.
• If necessary you can warm it up to bring to consistency.

Assembly 

• Whip the cream until stiff peaks
• Fold whipped cream to the strawberry pastry cream mixture
• Pour the mixture into a piping bag for easy pour and fill your dessert cups with the mixture.
• Let set in the fridge for an hour until set
• Pour the slightly warm mirror glaze on the set Bavarian cream
• Chill for a few hours (3 to 4 hours) until the dessert is chilled well before serving.

Recipe Card – Strawberry Bavarian Creme Recipe – Creme Bavaria

Doesn’t that look creamy and luxurious?