# Cook and Serve Pudding Pastry Cream Hack

A quick hack to turn a box of cook and serve pudding into delicious pastry cream.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 box cook and serve pudding mix
- 1.75 cup half and half
- 2 egg yolks
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 1 tbsp salted butter at room temperature
- 1 pinch salt (vanilla bean salt recommended)

## Instructions

1. Place the pudding mix in a pan.
2. Add one and three quarters cup of half and half and two egg yolks to the pudding mix.
3. Whisk these ingredients together until well combined.
4. Bring this over to your stove top and place it over medium heat.
5. Continuously whisk until it starts to boil.
6. Once it comes to a boil, remove it from the heat.
7. Add about a half a teaspoon of vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste.
8. Add one tablespoon of salted butter at room temperature.
9. Add a pinch of salt.
10. Whisk everything until nice and smooth.
11. Transfer the pastry cream into a stainless steel bowl.
12. Let it cool down at room temperature before placing it in the refrigerator.
13. Place cling wrap directly on top of the pastry cream so it doesn't form a skin.

## Equipment

- pan
- whisk
- stove top
- stainless steel bowl
- cling wrap

## Tips

- Place cling wrap directly on top of the pastry cream to prevent a skin from forming.
- This pastry cream is used to make Karpaka, a Polish dessert similar to a large cream puff.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FGBSWxNBh/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/43092919-7db9-4eb4-af9f-02429c549eb5
- Extracted: 2026-03-20

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