Mocha Pastry Cream for Eclairs and Napoleons

Name: Mocha Pastry Cream for Eclairs and Napoleons
Yield: Makes about 2 cups
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups, half-and-half; 1 1/2 teaspoons, instant espresso powder; 5 tablespoons, sugar plus 1 teaspoon; Pinch, salt; 3 , egg yolks; 2 tablespoons, cornstarch; 2 tablespoons, cold unsalted butter cut into 2 pieces; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our Napoleons recipe, we worked on a scaled-down version of our Quick Puff Pastry recipe. Then we figured out how to achieve level puff pastry layers for our Napoleons recipe, so they could be spread with pastry cream and stacked. We fo...

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