Souffles De Crème (cream Puffs)

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup flour
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 -3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
• 1 cup whipping cream
• powdered sugar (for sprinkling)

Recipe

• 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 :) .