I will be honest: my youngest and I ate every single one the same day. Not one survived. This is a dessert everybody loves and it asks almost nothing of you. Ten minutes standing at the stove, four hours in the fridge, and you end up with something that has nothing in common with the boxed powder at the store. Make it on a weeknight, eat it the next day.<\/p>\n
This is where mine breaks away from all the others. Every homemade pudding I have seen uses milk, full stop. I use one cup of whole milk and one cup of heavy cream. It changes the texture completely. The pudding turns dense and velvety instead of merely thick. It is a little richer, and you should own that, it is dessert.<\/p>\n
The cornstarch already does all the thickening. The yolks are there for something else: roughly a third of a yolk is fat, and the lecithin it contains is an emulsifier that keeps fat and water bound together. That is exactly what gives pastry cream its velvet. Cornstarch alone gives you thickness, never that richness on the palate. Two yolks is all it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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