3 tart cardamom pastry cream Recipes

all purpose flour, sugar, salt, chilled unsalted butter , cut into 1/2-inch pieces, more) ice water, egg yolk, whole milk, cardamom pods, crushed slightly, egg yolks, sugar, all purpose flour, unsalted butter, vanilla extract, blood oranges or small navel oranges, apricot preserves, melted, strained, grenadine (optional)

frozen puff pastry sheet (from a 17 1/4-oz package), thawed, firm-ripe bosc pears, peeled , halved lengthwise, and cored, fresh lemon juice, granulated sugar, unsalted butter, chilled heavy cream, ground cardamom, confectioners sugar for dusting (optional)