Cream puffs
Cream puffs

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, cream puffs. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 and eggs. In a large saucepan, bring the water, butter, salt, and granulated sugar to a rolling boil over medium-high heat. The foundation of the perfect cream puff is light, airy pâte à choux, which is made with eggs, flour, and butter.

Cream puffs is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cream puffs is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cream puffs using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cream puffs:
  1. Get Pastry Cream
  2. Take 3 egg yolks
  3. Make ready 300 ml milk
  4. Get 75 g sugar
  5. Take 1-2 Tbsp cornstarch
  6. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
  7. Take 1 Tbsp cointreau
  8. Make ready Salt (pinch)
  9. Get Cream Puff (makes 12 golf ball size)
  10. Get 2 eggs
  11. Get 125 ml water
  12. Prepare 45 g butter
  13. Take 80 g flour
  14. Get 1 tsp sugar
  15. Make ready Salt (pinch)

Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Then return now heated egg yolks to saucepan and stir, over heat, until mixture starts to bubble again. Cream puff is made with a French pastry dough, called choux pastry or pate a choux. To make choux pastry, you actually cook the flour in water and butter to form a paste, then beat in the eggs at the end.

Instructions to make Cream puffs:
  1. Separate egg yolks and beat-in sugar and cornstarch until a smooth consistency is formed without any lumps - On the side, warm the milk to about 50 degree celcius (be careful to not let it boil)
  2. Temper the egg-yolk mixture slowly with the warm milk to avoid scrambling - Sieve and transfer the mixture back into the pot and stir continuously until thickened and glossy
  3. Add-in any flavourings at this point (in my case, it's vanilla essence and some Cointreau for that orange vanilla flavour) - Once done, transfer the pastry cream into a bowl, cover with cling wrap and let it sit on the mixture to avoid skinning and allow the mixture to sit in the fridge to cool down
  4. Bring water and butter to boil in a pot - Combine the flour sugar and salt mixture, pour into the pot and stir until a dough forms
  5. Continue stiring and cooking the flour mixture in the pot until a smooth dough forms and films on the pot
  6. Remove dough from pot and add-in eggs one at a time, stiring until the dough forms again - Repeat until egg finishes and the dough drips in a V shape when the spatula is lifted from the bowl
  7. Add-in dough mixture to a piping bag and pipe out the mixture onto a tray lined with parchment paper - Pre-heat the oven to 200 degree celcius at this point - Smoothen the top with a wet finger and brush the puffs with some egg wash and allow to bake for about 30-35 minutes until golden brown
  8. Remove from oven and poke a whole to release steam, and bring back to oven and let it cool down with the oven door left ajar
  9. Remove pastry cream from the fridge an stir until mixture is smooth - Transfer pastry cream into a piping bag and pipe the pastry cream into the cream puffs - Dust with icing sugar to serve (if desired)

Cream puff is made with a French pastry dough, called choux pastry or pate a choux. To make choux pastry, you actually cook the flour in water and butter to form a paste, then beat in the eggs at the end. When baked, the dough expands in the oven creating a hollow shell, to be filled with all sorts of delicious fillings. These cream puffs are the ultimate pastry-case dessert to make at home. The crisp light shells are the perfect complement to the thick whipped pastry cream.

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