Meanings
nounBoston cream pie (countable and uncountable, plural Boston cream pies)
plural Boston cream pies
- countableuncountableA round cake that is split, filled with custard or cream, and frosted with chocolate, the official dessert of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
More Boston than baked beans (which seem to exist mostly in cans around here), this cake creates the taste of Boston cream pie with layers of golden cake layered with a rich vanilla custard and fudge frosting.
2011 October, Judy Rosenberg with Nan Levinson, “Boston Cream Pie Cake”, in The Rosie’s Bakery All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Layer Cakes), page 35
Translations
French gâteau Boston
- gâteau BostonTranslations
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