Vanilla semolina cream with butter

Name: Vanilla semolina cream with butter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 1 bowl
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 2 cups Milk; 4 tbsp Fine wheat semolina (farina); 2.5 tbsp Granulated sugar; 100 g Butter; 1 packet Vanilla sugar (20 g); 1 Egg yolk

Fluffy cream made with cooked semolina, butter, egg yolk, and vanilla sugar. Makes 1 bowl for filling cakes or serving with fruit.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Servings: 1 bowl
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Slovak

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Vanilla semolina cream with butter is a simple filling for baked and no-bake desserts. Milk, semolina, and vanilla sugar are cooked into a thick porridge and left to cool. Meanwhile, an egg yolk is stirred with sugar over simmering water, then beaten with butter. The cooled semolina is added a teaspoon at a time to make a fluffy cream. Use it to fill cakes or serve it on its own with fruit and sponge cookies.

Ingredients

Milk 2 cups
Fine wheat semolina (farina) 4 tbsp
Granulated sugar 2.5 tbsp
Butter 100 g
Vanilla sugar (20 g) 1 packet
Egg yolk 1

1 cup = 250 ml (metric cup)

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Instructions

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Mix the semolina with a little of the milk and 1 tsp of the sugar. Heat the remaining milk with the vanilla sugar. When it comes to a boil, stir in the semolina mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until a thick porridge forms.
Place the egg yolk and remaining sugar in a bowl set over simmering water and stir until thickened. Let cool slightly, then beat in the butter.
Gradually stir the cooled semolina porridge into the butter mixture, a teaspoon at a time, until the cream is fluffy.

Tip: Hold the bowl with the egg yolk over simmering water without letting it touch the water, and stir constantly; overheating the yolk will cause it to curdle into small lumps.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 192 kcal
Protein: 3.5 g
Carbohydrates: 16 g
of which sugars: 11 g
Fat: 13 g
of which saturates: 8.0 g
Fiber: 0.1 g
Salt: 0.1 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Krupicový krém s maslom a vanilkou na dezerty