I Do Not Own A Whisk: My First Attempt At Bavarian Cream

I kind of tweaked/merged a few different recipes I read. We'll see if that screws up my bavarian cream.

I used

1/3 cup sugar
pinch of salt
1/2+ TB gelatin (1 envelope)
3 large egg yolks
1 cup of milk (I used 2% but I imagine whole would be better)
Vanilla extract
1 cup heavy cream

Mix together sugar, salt, gelatin, egg yolks.

Bring 1 cup of milk to a boil in a sauce pan so that it's frothy, then turn off the heat. Add a few tablespoons of milk to the egg mixture and mix, then slowly pour in the rest of the milk while stirring continuously.

Transfer mixture back into the pot and stir over heat until it thickens and is slightly bubbly.

Remove pot from heat and put in an ice bath. Whip up your cream.

Once your custard mixture is cool, fold in the whipped cream.

Now it has to be refrigerated for 5 hours to a day. We'll see if it actually firms up.

No, I do not own a whisk. It is on my list of kitchen equipment I am not allowed to own until I am married.

Edit: It firmed up after only 1.5 hours. I wonder if that's a bad thing, but firm fillings I think are good so that it doesn't ooze out when the cake is cut. It tastes like creme brulee without the caramelized topping. Unsure if that's what bavarian cream is supposed to taste like, but yum!

Next: I have two vanilla buttermilk cake layers baking in the oven right now. I've read from multiple sources that cakes are actually better, more moist and flavorful, if you freeze them for a short period of time, which works for me because I won't really have time to bake during the week and the shower isn't until Friday, and I'll have to bake the cake layers a few days ahead of time for the actual wedding next summer as well. So I will triple plastic wrap these layers and see how that turns out for when I fill and assemble the cake on Thursday.

I like how I'm practicing for a wedding cake that I don't have to make until July 2011. Can I possibly procrastinate on studying any more than this? I'm leaving in five minutes to go study at a coffee shop with my friend though, far far away from my kitchen and my computer.