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Quick and Easy Pastry Cream
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Combine the corn starch with sugar in a mixing bowl.
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Vigorously stir with a whisk until the mixture comes to a boil.
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Return the mixture to the saucepan and continue cooking over low-medium heat.
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Temper the eggs.
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In a saucepan or pot, combine the remaining 1 1/2 cups of milk.
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Blend the lightly beaten yolks into the corn starch and sugar mixture.
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Pour 1/2 cup of the milk into the sugar and corn starch mixture.
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Lightly beat 4 egg yolks.
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Creamy texture of the Quick and Easy Pastry Cream.
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Cover the pastry cream to cool.
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Add the vanilla extract and butter.
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A bowl of Quick and Easy Pastry Cream.
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