Mini Boston Cream Pies Southern-Style
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These Mini Boston Cream Pies are absolutely melt-in-your-mouth delicious and the filling and chocolate… Oh MY! When you make these Southern-style you are going to love and hate me at the same time.
These mini pies are delicious and perhaps my favorite of the canned biscuit doughnut recipes I’ve posted.
Now, there are three main components to mini Boston cream pies. First, you have the flaky pastry or biscuit. Then you have the indulgent cream filling, which is made with sugar-free pudding, lite cool whip, and fat-free or low-fat milk. The final touch is the chocolate ganache on top. This is the only real sugar in the recipe, so as far as calories and guilt go, you could do a heck of a lot worse than these! Don’t bother telling anyone in your family these are actually light, no one will believe you!
Recipe Ingredients
- Canned biscuits
- Sugar-free instant jello
- Lite cool whip
- Vegetable oil
- Milk (I used 1%)
How to Make Mini Boston Cream Pies
Here’s a step-by-step guide to how to make these mini pies:
Place about 1/2 inch of oil into your pan and heat it on medium heat for about five minutes or so, to make sure it is good and hot.
Add in biscuits.
After less than a minute, they will be ready to turn. Turn them over and let them get good and golden brown on both sides. Remove from oil and place onto a paper towel-lined plate.
How to Make the Pie Filling
Now we make the Boston cream filling for our pies. This is one of my favorite fillings. I use this recipe to fill cream puffs and as a light icing for cold cakes. It’s also great just dolloped over fresh fruit.
Place 1 1/2 cups of fat-free milk in a mixing bowl. Add an entire small box of sugar-free french vanilla pudding. Note that we are adding 1/2 cup less milk than what the pudding calls for so this will be a bit thicker.
After that is mixed up, add eight ounces of lite whipped topping.
Make sure it is all blended up well. I mix mine with the mixer for a minute or two and then stir from the bottom with a rubber spatula to ensure I didn’t miss any. This is just delicious.
Now, using a pastry bag with a tip or just a new oral syringe (which you can get at any pharmacy for next to nothing – they might even give it to you if you tell them you’ll bring them some of these!), press the tip into the side of the doughnut and pipe a little filling in each one. I go for a little less than a tablespoon but you can do as much or as little as you like.
There ya go, filled doughnut …er uh…mini Boston cream pie!
Chocolate Ganache
Now, you are more than welcome to make the chocolate glaze for your mini cakes from scratch. Here’s my recipe for the creamiest chocolate frosting ever (made using , cocoa powder, , , and . However, this is meant to be a quick and easy recipe, so I just used some store-bought chocolate frosting and stuck it in the microwave for about thirty seconds to get it to a good glaze consistency. Repeat with each individual Boston cream pie. Yummmm.
Storage
Store leftover Boston cream pie minis in an airtight container or covered in in the fridge for up to 4 days. Because of the pastry cream filling, these pies won’t freeze well.
Recipe Notes
- Instead of biscuits, another option is to sandwich the between a pair of Nilla wafers. Yum!
- You could also make a instead and pipe the into the center of the cupcakes. To easily make the cupcakes, use a yellow sponge . For pies, use a .
Other products of my canned biscuit doughnut frenzy:
Quick and Easy Jelly-Filled Doughnuts
Ingredients
- 1 can biscuits five or ten count, NOT the flaky layers type
- vegetable oil
- vanilla pudding small box, sugar-free
- 1 1/2 cups fat-free milk or low fat
- 8 ounces light whipped cream or low fat
- 4 tbsp chocolate frosting we used a canned frosting
Instructions
- Pour the vegetable oil in a skillet to a depth of 1/2-inch. Place on medium heat and let it heat up for about five minutes to make sure the oil is good and hot.vegetable oil
- Place the biscuits in the hot oil and turn as soon as they become brown, and let them brown on both sides. Remove to a paper towel-lined plate.1 can biscuits
- To make the filling, mix the milk and the instant vanilla pudding together in a medium bowl, blend well. Add the whipped topping and mix until well blended. Stir with a spatula from the bottom a few times to continue mixing.vanilla pudding, 1 1/2 cups fat-free milk, 8 ounces light whipped cream
- Place in an icing bag with a tip or an oral syringe and pipe into the doughnuts from the side.
- Heat the chocolate frosting in the microwave for about thirty seconds, until it is of glaze consistency. Pour into a small bowl. Dip the top of each mini Boston cream pie into the ganache and place them on a plate to serve.4 tbsp chocolate frosting
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Submitted by Bev
OK, so if I wanted to make lemon filled donuts … would it be better to use canned lemon pie filling (which I’ve never tried) or maybe mix up instant lemon pudding (which may not be tart enough)???
Keep it up and you’ll have enough recipes for a donut cookbook!
I wouldn’t use the canned, personally. I would get lemon pudding mix, use only 1 cup of milk and then add in eight ounces of whipped topping. Then I would add in two tablespoons of lemon juice and mix that all up well. I think that would add the tartness you want but still be nice and creamy. You might even want to start with one tablespoon of juice and then taste it before adding the other :).
Another option (but much higher in calories and effort) would be to make lemon meringue pie filling from scratch and inject that.
If it were me, I’d be going the pudding route because you can get sugar free and then the light cool whip- meaning you can PIG OUT more! lol
ooh did I just say that?
Nahhh, not me!
~looks innocent~
I am really enjoying all these deep-fried-biscuit recipes you’ve been posting! I have yet to actually make some, because I’m afraid I’d never be able to stop eating them and I am trying to watch my weight… I think this one looks the best so far, and that’s saying a lot, because the regular donuts and the jelly-filled both looked great!
Thank you so much!!
You know the cool thing about these is that you can just make a five count can of biscuits if you like, so there isn’t a whole dozen lurking around your house anywhere!!
I’ll be glad when February rolls around and we all start slacking off of our diets again! lol JUST KIDDING!! (well, maybe kidding a little).
I always need to lose weight!
I don’t eat this kind of stuff except for maybe an occasional holiday. These look so very, very tempting, though! If I had anyone with whom to share them, I might break down and make a few. However, my husband is pre-diabetic and has a will of iron so I’ll just have to fantasize!
Oooh, have you tried making the homemade banana pudding with splenda for him ?
its soooooooooo good. That is one of my favorite treats. It does have carbs but it gives you a chance to have something sweet without the sugar, too.
I just always balance it out, make sure I eat a nice dinner with plenty of protein before I have a small bowl of splenda banana pudding.
🙂
I agree completely though, these things around the holidays are great – you can eat more with less guilt!
Nooo… I don’t think he’d care for banana pudding. He’s picky. He *might* go for one these with the sugar-free lemon filling. He loves lemon! ~I~ love Bavarian creme filled doughnuts so the thought of these is still gnawing at me! I might have to stop at Krispy Kreme before the week’s out! 😉
Back to the store I go…. Can’t wait to try them.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
~grins, squeals, and spins around~
Haaaaaaaaaaaa! This was a great entry. Not only am I salivating over the recipe, but I’m married to a user-group-coordinator-type-guy. (I don’t really know what he does, exactly, but it has something to do with user groups and 3-D design software…I think).
Off to buy some ingredients!
Jadine, I think we might be married to the same person.
If so, could you please pick up the pace and help me out a bit more with the laundry?
I’ve always wanted another wife around here!
🙂 Christy
P.S. see if he knows anything about Solidworks World. I am sending goodies there for all of the engineers I know 🙂
Let’s see…does he know anything about Solidworks World…well, here’s the link to his blog: http://blogs.solidworks.com/swcommunity/ 🙂
And about the laundry, these tech-geeks (I didn’t just call them that) are surprisingly good at laundry. Sure, they don’t want this information to get around, and sure, they only do THEIR OWN laundry, and yes, it may never get folded, but they *can* do it.
But okay, I’ll step up and get some of yours done after my nap…that I’ll have to take to recover from my sugar-and-fat-induced-coma resulting from the impending creme-pie-incident-of-2009.
I’m just gonna go load up on insulin now… lol.
lol!
But Bill, the only sugar is the icing on top, really!!
How are you feeling today?
A little dizziness once in a while but otherwise doing great maam. I’m sucking down water and watching my blood sugar closely. Thank you for asking.
~frowns~
You don’t need to be up and about so much. Are you taking tylenol regularly, too?
Make sure you steer clear of those carbs, get plenty of protein and good liquid meals like broth…and keep drinking the fluids. I find that if I keep a glass of water around me at all times, I sip it absentmindedly. Same with doughnuts.~grins~
Keep us posted and how is your dad doing? Did he get it as badly as you? Don’t make me come over there!
Dad is doing great today. I made him drink lots of water and eat some pedialyte pops. He was doing much better today and ate since his stomach didn’t bother him anymore.. It was a simple 24 hour bug..but it hit him harder being 82 years old. I will do what you say maam.. I promise lol.
Sorry I missed the show. I was in the doctors office from 4:45pm to around 8. It was a mad house.
Hey Bill!
I went out last night with one of my neighbors (Laura in Athens, she is on here) and we talked about you! We’re both wondering how your dad and you are feeling today so let us know!
Christy 🙂
Im going into sugar coma here. God I LOVE these donuts. I used to buy a half dozen of these at a a place whose name I will not mention but you love to dunk em in your coffee. I would eat the entire half dozen of these and go back and buy more.I wont have any trouble scarfin these puppies down. (gains 20 lbs just looking at em).
lol!
Tell you what, I’ll start a program to keep the weight off. Y’all eat all of my food you want and then you get to help with the dishes, I’ll work it right off of ya and then feed you again!
Such a fun cycle!!
I miss the days when I could just eat as many doughnuts as I wanted, two at a time or so. I guess I’m lucky I can’t do that anymore because you can imagine where I’d be now with Southern Plate and all!!!