This easy Chocolate Pastry Cream Recipe (Chocolate Crème Pâtissière) is a delicious chocolate custard cream that can be used as a filling or topping for your favourite pastries, cream puffs, eclairs, tarts and cakes. Made with Dark Chocolate, this easy pastry cream filling recipe is so good you will want to eat it on its own! It is a classic French Pastry recipe that is extremely versatile and will create a truly decadent filling for your favourite desserts.