Cream puffs are a favourite dessert of mine. I like them filled with vanilla pudding pistachio pudding or whipping cream. These are filled with whipping cream. Enjoy!
Cream Puffs filled with Whipping Cream
Ingredients
- Ingredients for pastry:
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup butter cut up in small chunks
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ⅛ cup flour
- 4 eggs
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- Filling:
- 2 cups 35% whipping cream
- ¼ cup sifted icing sugar
- 2 teaspoons orange liqueur or orange juice
- Beat whipping cream with sugar and liqueur until very thick.
Instructions
- Directions for baking pastry:
- In a medium sized saucepan, bring water, butter, sugar and salt to a boil. Add all the flour at once and stir until mixture forms a ball.
- Using a mixer, beat in eggs one at a time. When mixture is nice and creamy, make small balls or oblong shapes with a spoon or piping bag, onto a parchment covered cookie sheet.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F for ten minutes. Reduce oven to 350°F and bake another 15 minutes until a dark golden brown colour.
- Pierce puffs in 2 places to let steam escape and cool on racks.
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- Filling the cream puffs:
- There are a couple of ways to fill these puffs.
- #1. Place filling in a piping bag, pierce cream puff with tip and squeeze in desired amount or
- #2. Cut puffs in half and spoon filling into puff, replace top.
- Drizzle with melted chocolate or dust with icing sugar if desired.
