Now, place your egg yolks in a bowl, and add the sugar. Take it off of the heat immediately, and let it sit for 15 minutes so the milk can become infused with the vanilla. Doesn’t it look great?! All that vanilla goodness is going to be incredible!! Heat the milk and vanilla until starts to boil. Take the knife with the vanilla on it and drop it into the milk. Take a sharp knife and scrape down the entire vanilla bean when it is fully open. While the milk is heating, slice your vanilla bean down the length of the side. Pour your cake batter into an 8×10 baking dish. Mix 1 minutes on low, and then turn it up to medium and mix 3 minutes. Mix all of the ingredients for the cake in a bowl. Let me know what you think!ġ box Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake 1 box vanilla instant Pudding Mix 4 large Eggs 1 cup Sour Cream 1/2 cup warm water 1/2 cup vegetable OilĢ cups whole milk, or 2% 1/2 Vanilla Bean 6 Egg Yolks 2/3 cup Sugar 1/4 cup Cornstarch 1 tablespoon Unsalted ButterĨ ounces Semisweet Chocolate 1 cup Heavy Cream Preheat oven to 350 degrees. I transformed the pie into a trifle, making it something a little special, and I think it works. Actually, I used a Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake. I decided to put a slight twist on the traditional and make my Boston Cream Pie with chocolate cake. I have since learned that the Boston Cream Pie was originally made in colonial times and the colonists used to bake cakes in pie tins because most people didn’t have cake pans, only pie pans. I was always fascinated with the fact that it was really a cake, but called a pie. Today I made a Chocolate Boston Cream Pie Trifle! One of my favorite desserts from when I was growing up was a Boston Cream Pie.