Boston Cream Pie

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 tablespoons margarine
• 1 teaspoon light corn syrup

Recipe

• 1 cake:.
• 2 preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease and flour a round pan 9 x 1-1/2 inches.
• 3 beat all the ingredients except the cream filling and chocolate glaze in large
• 4 bowl on low speed, scraping bowl constantly, 30 seconds. beat on high speed,
• 5 scraping bowl occasionally, 3 minutes.
• 6 pour into pan.
• 7 bake until wooden pick
• 8 inserted in center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes.
• 9 remove from pan and cool
• 10 completely.
• 11 split cake into 2 layers.
• 12 fill with the cream filling on the bottom layer of the cake. cover with top the layer of cake. spread the top of the cake with the chocolate glaze.
• 13 refrigerate cake.
• 14 cream filling:
• 15 mix sugar, cornstarch and salt in 2 quart saucepan; stir in milk gradually.
• 16 cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils; boil and
• 17 stir 1 minutes.
• 18 stir at least half of the hot mixture gradually into egg yolks.
• 19 blend into hot mixture in saucepan; boil and stir 1 minute.
• 20 remove from heat; stir in vanilla. cool to room temperature.
• 21 chocolate glaze:.
• 22 heat chocolate chips, margarine or butter and light corn syrup in 1 quart saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly
• 23 until chips melt; cool slightly.