How to Make Appetizing Cream Puffs

Cream Puffs. Homemade cream puffs will wow your guests, but they are so easy to make, especially if you fill them with instant vanilla pudding. The baked puff shells are a simple alchemy of milk, butter, water, salt. Learn how to make easy Cream Puffs.

Wow, he's such a cream puff. He's sitting on his ass eating a donut while all his friends are outside playing football. As I was sitting at my kitchen table eating one yesterday, I actually These cream puffs are the ultimate pastry-case dessert to make at home. You can cook Cream Puffs using 14 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cream Puffs

1. You need of Choux pastry.
2. You need 1/4 cup of unsalted butter.
3. You need 1/2 cup of water.
4. It's 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
5. It's 1 teaspoon of sugar.
6. You need 1/2 cup of + 1 tablespoon flour.
7. Prepare 2 of eggs.
8. Prepare of Filling.
9. It's 1 cup of chilled, heavy whipping cream.
10. You need 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
11. Prepare of Optional Toppings.
12. Prepare of Melted chocolate.
13. It's of Powdered sugar for dusting.
14. It's of Sliced strawberries.

These easy Cream Puffs are made from scratch, and taste SO delicious freshly baked from the oven. A simple choux pastry dough is mixed together, then baked and filled with a vanilla pastry cream! A Cream Puff is a hollow round of crisp choux pastry that is split in half, filled with a loads of whipped cream, and dusted with powdered sugar. Gingerbread Cream Puffs with White Chocolate Chantilly —.

Cream Puffs instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Place a metal or glass bowl, along with your whisks into the freezer for your whipped cream.
4. Choux Pastry: Over medium heat in a saucepan, melt butter.
5. Add in water, sugar & salt, then bring to a boil.
6. Once boiling, remove from heat & stir in flour with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula - it should eventually form a ball.
7. Set aside & let this cool for about 7 minutes.
8. In a small bowl, beat the eggs.
9. Add this to the dough then stir together till mixture is thick & shiny.
10. Put batter into a piping bag or sturdy ziploc bag; snip the tip/corner off.
11. On a parchment paper lined baking sheet, pipe 2 inch mounded circles, one inch apart. *To get rid of any peaks, dip your finger into water & slightly press down onto your piped batter*.
12. Bake at 400° for 20 to 22 minutes. Let cool..
13. Filling: Add your chilled, heavy whipping cream to the bowl & powdered sugar.
14. Whip this until stiff peaks form, it takes a bit but is worth the effort.
15. Assembly: After the choux buns are cooled, slice them in half, horizontally.
16. Either pipe or spoon in the whipped cream onto the bottom half of the bun; additionally, add on the strawberries at this point.
17. Place on the top, and drizzle on the melted chocolate or dust with powdered sugar.
18. ENJOY~.

I have been waiting ALL YEAR for this month. I talked about how excited I was for Christmas back in August. Ever wanted to make perfect Cream Puffs at home? Today I'm showing you exactly how to make them completely from scratch in the comfort of your own kitchen. And guess what: It's not even that hard!