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Cream Puffs And Various Fillings

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Serves/Makes: 12
Ready in: 1-2 hrs

***Cream Puffs***

  • 1 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch sugar
  • 4 eggs

***Cream Puff Filling***

  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten

***Strawberry Filling***

  • 2 pints strawberries
  • 4 tablespoons powdered sugar, divided
  • 2 cups heavy cream

***Cream Cheese Filling***

  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 pkt (8 ounce size) cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1 package (3.75 ounce size) instant vanilla pudding mix

***Custard Filling***

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Cream puffs: In a medium saucepan, bring the water and butter to a boil. Mix in flour and salt-sugar stir until form a ball. Remove from heat and put in a bowl add eggs one at a time stirring between adding eggs. Drop on un-greased cookie sheet by tbsp -one for each cream puff or make larger. Bake at 400 degrees F for 30 to 35 minutes or light brown and centers are dry. Cool.

Split sides with a knife fill using one of below fillings.

Cream puff filling: Mix sugar, cornstarch and eggs in 2-quart saucepan. Stir in milk gradually. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Remove from heat; stir in butter and vanilla. Cool and fill cream puffs

Strawberry filling: Wash, clean, drain strawberries and dry on paper towels. Slice into medium size bowl-stir in 2 tbsp powdered sugar. Chill 30 minutes.

Beat cream with remaining 2 tbsp powdered sugar in a medium size bowl. Chill. Just before serving, Can either leave strawberries slice and mixed with cream or blend with processor in the cream.

Cream Cheese Filling: Soften cream cheese well. Slowly add 1/2 cup milk. Blend well. Add pudding mix and rest of milk; beat slowly 1 minute. Cover surface of pudding with plastic wrap so it sticks to top. Chill well. Fill cream puffs.

Custard Filling: Mix sugar, flour, salt in a saucepan. Stir in milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring until it boils. Let boil for 1 minute, and then remove from heat. Stir in half of the mixture into the eggs. Blend that into the rest of the hot mixture in the pan. Bring it just to a boil. Cool and blend in vanilla.


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