Boston Cream Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup milk
• 6 tablespoons butter or 6 tablespoons margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups milk
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 ounces bakers semisweet chocolate
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 -3 tablespoon milk

Recipe

• 1 to make cake (if you want to buy a pre-made a 9-inch yellow round cake, you can omit steps 1-6) preheat oven to 375-degrees f.
• 2 grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
• 3 mix all ingredients (flour-eggs) at low speed until combined, then mix at high speed for 2 minutes at high speed.
• 4 pour in pan.
• 5 bake for 25 minutes or until done.
• 6 cool on rack for at 10 minutes before removing from pan.
• 7 let cool while making custard filling and chocolate glaze.
• 8 to make filling: stir all filling ingredients except vanilla (milk-egg yolks) in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-low heat.
• 9 cook until filling thickens and boils (20 minutes).
• 10 boil one minute then stir in vanilla.
• 11 remove from heat.
• 12 refrigerate 30 minutes--cool but not completely set.
• 13 make glaze while filling is cooling.
• 14 to make glaze: melt chocolate and butter over low heat (or heat in microvave).
• 15 remove from heat.
• 16 beat in sugar an milk with whisk until smooth.
• 17 to assemble cake: split cut in half horizontally (you now have two thin 9-inch layers).
• 18 place one layer cut side up on plate.
• 19 cover with custard filling.
• 20 place second layer (cut side down) over filling.
• 21 coat top of cake with chocolate glaze.