Boston Cream Pie is a round layer cake that is filled with a cream or custard filling and topped with a chocolate glaze. The custard is usually vanilla. Boston Cream Pie is sometimes decorated with confectioner's sugar and a cherry. The cake was first made in 1856 and originally went by the names Chocolate Cream Pie and Parker House Chocolate Cream Pie.
Main Ingredients
The main ingredients of a Boston Cream Pie are eggs, sugar, shortening, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, milk, unsweetened chocolate, powdered sugar, and water.
Pre-Made Boston Cream Pies
GrandmasOven.com: Boston Cream Pie
Gregg's Restaurants & Pubs: Boston Cream Pie
The Baker's Catalogue: Coconut Boston Cream Pie Kit
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Fast Facts
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Created by French Chef M. Sanzian
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Created at the Parker House Hotel in Boston
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Recipe first printed in 1879 in the Housekeeping in Old Virginia cookbook
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Massachusetts state dessert as of 1996
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Also competing for state dessert was the Toll House Cookie and Indian Pudding
