Product Description

Create smooth, creamy pastry cream quickly and consistently with IRCA Top Pastry Cream. This instant powdered mix is designed for cold preparation, making it an efficient solution for busy bakeries, pastry kitchens, and foodservice operations. Simply whisk the mix with water or milk, allow it to rest for three minutes, and stir briefly to achieve a soft, smooth cream with an appealing light yellow color. Made with selected starches and a high content of powdered milk, it delivers reliable texture and performance without the need for traditional stovetop custard preparation.

Top Pastry Cream can be prepared with water for everyday convenience or with milk for a richer flavor and creamier finished result. Its adaptable profile also makes it easy to customize with flavorings, chocolate, fruit preparations, nut pastes, or other ingredients to suit a wide variety of recipes.

Designed with professional versatility in mind, the prepared cream is both bake and freeze resistant, allowing it to perform beautifully in pastries that require additional processing or advance preparation. Use it for tarts, choux pastries, cakes, layered desserts, filled baked goods, and countless other pastry applications where dependable consistency and a smooth, creamy finish are essential.

KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS

- Quick Cold Preparation: Produces smooth pastry cream without cooking, helping streamline production and reduce hands-on preparation time.
- Flexible Water or Milk Preparation: Mix with water for convenient everyday use or milk when a richer flavor and creamier profile are desired.
- Smooth, Creamy Consistency: Selected starches and powdered milk help create a soft, spreadable texture suited to filling, layering, piping, and finishing.
- Bake & Freeze Resistant: Maintains dependable performance through baking and freezing, offering greater flexibility for production, storage, and finished desserts.
- Easy to Customize: Provides a versatile pastry cream base that can be flavored or combined with complementary ingredients for a wide range of signature desserts.

Pack Size: 2.2 lb unit

Ingredients: Sugar, modified tapioca starch, dried whole MILK, nonfat dry MILK, LACTOSE, stabilizers: calcium phosphate, sodium pyrophosphate; disodium phosphate; salt, thickener: carrageenan, artificial flavors, colors: beta carotene and turmeric

Dietary Notes: Gluten-free, Halal, Kosher Dairy. Contains MILK. May contains EGGS and SOY.

Directions:
400-450g Irca Top Cream
1000g Tap water

To obtain a custard cream with richer flavour and taste it is possible to use milk instead of water:
350-400g Irca Top Cream
1000g Milk

Procedure:
Add TOP CREAM to the water (or milk, as preferred) and mix strongly with a whisk.
Allow to rest for 3 minutes, then stir shortly obtaining a perfect smooth cream ready to use.
The custard cream obtained with TOP CREAM is both bake and freeze resistant.
NOTICE: TOP CREAM contains a high quantity of milk and it is then recommended to to carefully clean all tools and containers; avoid any type of contamination. The cream must be consumed within 24 hours if kept at room temperature (18-20C). 

Storage Recommendations: Store in a cool a dry place.

Product of Italy.