Filling recipes

31 Cake Filling Ideas to Sweeten Your Creations. Craving delightful dessert ideas? Dive into these 31 cake filling ideas to add layers of sweetness and flavor to your masterpiece, making every bite irresistible!

Try a few of these incredible, delicious filled cupcakes that are perfect for any occasion. They are all easy to make but look impressive!

Chocolate pastry cream is smooth, creamy, and perfect for use as a cake or cupcake filling, or to use with other pastries.

Pastry cream is a delicious pudding-like custard recipe that you never knew you needed! Also called Crème Pâtissière, this French staple is an important part of many desserts, like eclairs and fruit tarts. It is similar to vanilla pudding but much thicker (perfect for piping and filling Bavarian Cream Donuts!) It is made in 10 minutes and uses pantry staples: egg yolks, milk, and cornstarch.

This easy strawberry cake filling is made with fresh juicy strawberries, uses only 4 ingredients, and comes together in 20 minutes!

Whether you're looking for something chocolatey, fruity, or creamy, there's sure to be a recipe on this list of 35+ easy cake filling recipes that's perfect for your next baking project.

This easy pastry cream recipe can be used to fill cream puffs, eclairs, cakes, cupcakes, and so much more!

This is the best strawberry filling for cake & cupcakes. It is thick and won't bleed out of the cake. Use it in tarts or dessert recipes. Can be frozen too.

A better-than-Dunkin' Bavarian Cream Donut: pillowy-soft fried dough, big enough to hold spoonfuls of creamy Bavarian filling, dunked in powdered sugar.

This recipe for Coffee Pastry Cream is delicious, the perfect filling for napoleons, profiteroles, tarts, cakes and more! You will love this spin on pastry cream, view the step-by-step photos for easy success!