Cream Puffs
Recipe Type: Dessert
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Serves: 6-12
Ingredients
- For the pastry
- 1 cup Water
- ½ cup Butter or Margarine
- 4 Eggs
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour (sifted)
- For the vanilla custard filling
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1 packet Instant Vanilla Pudding (about 3.4 oz, you may use your favorite brand)
- For Presentation
- Powdered Sugar
Instructions
Pastry
- Pour one cup of water in a medium to large <g class=”gr_ gr_63 gr-alert gr_spell gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del” id=”63″ data-gr-id=”63″>sauce pan</g>, add butter and bring it to <g class=”gr_ gr_65 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep” id=”65″ data-gr-id=”65″>rolling</g> boil.
- While the mixture of water and butter still boiling add flour, half a cup at a time. Stir well to incorporate the flour so it starts pulling away from the pan and forms a ball.
- Place the mixture of flour into a mixer. Turn the mixer on and add the eggs, one egg at a time letting it fully incorporate before adding the next one.
- Place the pastry mixture into a piping bag and pipe individual “puffs” onto a greased baking pan. This recipe is aimed at making 12 medium size cream puffs. But if you make them smaller you can get 18-20 smaller cream puffs.
- Bake the cream puffs at 400°F in a pre-heated oven for 10 minutes then reduce the temperature to 350°F and bake for another 25 minutes until the puffs are doubled in size.
- Once baked, remove the puffs from the oven and make a small slice with a knife in the bottom of each puff. This lets the hot air out and prevents the puffs from collapsing.
Filling
- Combine milk, heavy cream and instant pudding in the mixer.
- Mix on medium speed for about 5 minutes or until you get “soft peaks”.
- Place the filling into a piping bag with #12 decorating tip attached. Fill each puff <g class=”gr_ gr_58 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace” id=”58″ data-gr-id=”58″>through</g> the slice you made in step 6. If you do not have a piping bag you can slice the puffs in half (horizontally) and fill them with a spoon.
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