Revisiting Recipes: Cream Puffs

Revisiting Recipes: Cream Puffs

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May 21, 2010

In the last Dinner for 4, themed “Rest”, I made Cream Puffs for dessert – to represent big fluffy pillows that you can “rest” on. (Yes, it’s a stretch, I know…) But they were such a hit, and so easy to make, that I wanted to post the recipe here to share. Note that in the original recipe, you make the cream yourself, but I found it much easier just to use Cool Whip (and still tasty). Bon appetit!

Homemade Cream Puffs drizzed with Chocolate Sauce

Cream Puffs

adapted from bluebayou’s recipe on Allrecipes.com

INGREDIENTS



1 cup water

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour (I didn’t have a sifter, so I used a splatter screen – so resourceful, I know!)

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 eggs

1 pint Cool Whip

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips



DIRECTIONS



1.Preheat the oven to 450

2.Bring water to boil, add butter & stir, bring it back to boil

3.Add flour and salt and stir vigorously until it thickens

4.Remove from heat, add eggs (make sure the mixture is not too hot or else it’ll cook the egg and you’ll have scrambled eggs)

5.Drop onto a cookie sheet using a big spoon, leave some space for them to expand

6.Bake 15 minutes at 450, reduce to 325, bake another 25 minutes or until fragrant and golden

7.Remove from oven, cool a bit and then cut then in half

8.Spoon Cool Whip in between the halves of the puffs

9.Melt chocolate chips in the microwave, drizzle melted chocolate on top of cream puffs

10.Serve!