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Crème Légère

12/08/2023


Have you ever heard of crème légère? It's quite used in Italy and there we often confuse it with chantilly cream. Crème légère, as the name hints, is a lighter cream. Lighter I'd say in texture, so more delicate if you prefer, definitely not in terms of ingredients. It's the mix of the pastry cream with whipped cream. 

Ingredients for 500g of cream

For the whipped cream

  • 250ml of heavy whipping cream

  • 1tbsp of granulated sugar

For the cream

  • 500ml of milk

  • 60g of sugar

  • 30g of corn starch 

  • 2 eggs

  • vanilla extract

  • (optional) the grated zest of a lemon 

Preparation

Let's start by preparing the whipped cream

  1. With an electric whisk, whip the cold cream with the sugar until you get medium peaks - use a medium speed otherwise you'll risk turning the cream into "butter"

  2. place in the fridge until needed

Proceed to prepare the cream, if you don't remember how, here's the preparation. 

  1. Prepare the cream

  2. pour it into a bowl and let it cool covered with film

Last steps

  1. In a bowl pour the pastry cream

  2. with a whisk incorporate, with slow movements from bottom to top the whipped cream 

  3. keep stirring until you'll have a smooth cream

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