Souffles De Crème (Cream Puffs)

Deb's Recipes's Note:

This recipe is from a French cooking class I took about twenty-five years ago. I decided to post it now for Zaar World Tour II.

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 24

Pastry Puffs

• 1 cup water
• ¼ cup butter
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup flour
• 4 eggs

Cream Filling

• ½ cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 -3 tablespoons cornstarch
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 egg yolks , slightly beaten
• 1 cup whipping cream
• powdered sugar (for sprinkling)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. In a saucepan, bring water, butter, and salt to a rolling boil; remove from heat.
3. Whisk in flour and stir until dough comes together; add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition until batter is smooth.
4. Drop batter by tablespoonfuls onto a greased or parchment-lined baking sheet; use wet fork tines to fluff up each mound of dough.
5. Bake at 375° for 10 minutes; reduce oven temperature to 350° and continue baking for another 15 minutes until pastry puffs are light golden-brown; turn off oven but do NOT open oven door; after several minutes remove puffs from oven and slice; return puffs to baking sheet then return sheet to oven; allow puffs to rest several minutes inside oven with oven door slightly ajar.
6. Stir together sugar, flour, cornstarch, and salt in a saucepan; add milk, vanilla, and egg yolks; cook over low-medium heat, stirring, until thick; cool in refrigerator.
7. Whip cream until stiff and fold it gently into cooled filling mixture; spoon or pipe filling into pastry puffs; sprinkle powdered sugar over top.
8. NOTE: The unfilled puffs freeze well, may later be filled with your favorite chicken or ham salads, and can be made small-sized for appetizers ~ I've often enjoyed them this way at wedding showers :) .

Reviews

[Chef #626316]

though i haven't made it i'm making it tomorrow hope it taste nice