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
Christy – Looks like the crowd loved this one! I am looking at these as my stomach growls begging you to send me some of these morsels of goodness. They look amazing!
I know, I am tickled with their reception! I went to Logan’s last night with a girl’s night out and took twenty of these. I ended up handing them out around the bar and to the wait staff because folks kept asking for them! lol
It was fun!
Thank you, Zesty!
Had to try these Christy and my DH loved them and wanted more but I shared these with the GK’s so guess I’ll have to make more. How long can you keep the left over mixed pudding cool whip? Thanks. Love your receipes. Judy
That pudding mixture will keep for several days in the fridge or a few months in the freezer, just thaw it out when you’re ready to use it!
I’m so glad he liked them! I am also really stunned at how well these have gone over. I didn’t use a recipe or anything I just kinda got the idea the day before I posted them and came up with it!
wow
I almost didn’t post them but my husband made me!
Guess I gotta give it to him!
Gratefully,
Christy
Aaaaww Christy…and you know I can’t get frozen biscuits here! =(
It’s not fair!!!!
I’m on it! i’m on it! honest! lol
I’ll try to get y’all a fried dough recipe up soon 🙂
How much longer til Graceland?
Myella…
here is a good (easy) recipe for a doughnut from scratch. Do you have an electric breadmaker?
3/4 cup milk or water
2 large eggs
4 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons yeast
vegetable oil (for frying)
Place ingredients in bread machine according to manufacturer and set to dough setting.
When cycle is done, remove dough, punch down and let rest 10 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/2-inch thick.
Cut with floured riund cutter. Cut a smaller hole in the middle for doughnut holes if desired.
Place on a lightly greased baking sheet and let rise about 1 hour or until very light.
Fry in preheated 375*F (190*C) oil, a few at a time, about 1 minute, each side.
Drain on paper towel.
Glaze with icing, fill and/or dust with powdered/cinnamon sugar, as desired.
Makes about 24 doughnuts.
Hope this helps you!
Thank you Angela!!! Those look fabulous!!
Thanks Angela – I will have to give your recipe a go – I do have a bread maker that thankfully, despite the fact it no longer cooks the bread, does still make dough! Unless I’ve thrown it out – I’ll check this afternoon!
Cheers, Myella
It just kills me to read all these delicious recipes and not be able to join in the fun! We don’t have “canned biscuits” here in Australia! What’s the go? I mean, come on! Obviously they are very versatile (and necessary) part of a normal diet (that’s die with a t by the way!), but along with (real, that is Hidden Valley) Ranch dressing, it is not a thing found on the shelves of Coles or Woolworths!
Christy – could you perhaps do a post on how to make biscuits? I know they’re such an obvious southern thing that it probably hasn’t even occurred to you, but for the sake of my waistline (or lack thereof), I would really appreciate knowing an alternative or what would be similar to canned biscuits. Or just a dough that can be fried?
cheers and thanks
Myella
Okay so my first two questions are: What is Cole’s and Woolworths?
I am assuming they are grocery stores but I wonder if Woolworths is owned by the same company that used to own our Woolworths stores (I haven’t seen one since I was a girl). If so that would be really interesting because it was always a clothing store here!
I do have a recipe for homemade biscuits on here but I will work on getting you a recipe specifically for fried dough as it is actually easier than homemade biscuit dough :).
I’ll put it on my list and try to get to it soon!
I’m sorry you can’t get these!! I know I went on a bit of a canned biscuit craze this past week but I swear it wasn’t intentional! My intent this month has been to bring you light and diet friendly recipes…
The best laid plans……
~laughs~
Hi Christy – I’ll give Angela’s recipe a go and see what happens. I’ve seen your recipe for buttermilk biscuits, but doubt they’d survive the frying process! Will wait with bated breath for your fried dough recipe!
PS – Coles & Woolworths are grocery stores – we also have a Big W (same company as Woolworths), which is clothes and general merchandise, but Woolworths is only grocery. They’re our 2 biggest chains here.
OMG!! I hate you and I love you!!
LOL!
Well thanks!! I love being hated in a loving way!!!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
I swear if I were a man I’d hunt you down and beg you to marry me!
You rock 🙂
lol, WOW this post has gotten some great reactions, I’m so glad I went ahead and posted it (was going to hold it for a while).
I loved this comment, had to call Mama on this one! lol
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!