Heart to Hearth Cookery

Boston Cream Pie

Even though I live in Pennsylvania, I have always considered myself a New Englander (born and raised in the state of Maine).  And there is not much more home to me then eating Boston Cream Pie. And last evening I partook of  the ultimate piece of Boston Cream Pie at its home in Boston at the Omni Parker House  (operating since 1855).  Pudding-cake pies were a tradition in New England and a Boston Cream Pie is one.  It is a sponge cake with vanilla custard and the ingredient that makes it a Boston Cream Pie is the chocolate