When Andrea was nine years old, she discovered cream puffs. She wanted to learn to bake them and would keep asking for me to teach her. Finally, I gave her a recipe for French Profiteroles and let her make a batch. Was she surprised to learn they were cream puffs.
While we usually eat these with whipped cream and homemade nutella or chocolate sauce, they are also very good with vanilla ice cream.
Ingredients
- 8 Tbls butter
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup Water
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- Chocolate sauce
Servings: rolls
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Lightly butter baking sheet with 1 1/2 tsp butter and dust with flour. Set aside.
- Add butter, water and salt to a medium saucepan. Bring to a soft boil and melt butter.
- Take off of heat and add all the flour, mix well.
- Place back on medium head and cook and stir about 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Pour into large bowl and cool a couple of minutes.
- Add 1 egg and beat with electric mixer on low until egg is beaten in. Do the same with the remaining eggs.Dough should be shiny yellow and thick.
- Scoop dough onto cookie sheet using two tablespoons. Should make 12 mounds, space them about 3 inches apart because they grow.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes or until puffed and golden. Remove from oven and pierce puffs with sharp knife. Return to oven and bake another 10 minutes.
- Remove and cool completely.
- Meanwhile whip cream and sugar until light and fluffy.
- To serve, cut each puff in half, scoop whipped cream in center. Top with other half of cream puff and spoon chocolate sauce over.
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