These came out quite a bit larger than I expected. As I mentioned, I haven't made them in years and I forgot how much they puffed up! Now I know that I can get many more than 11 puffs from one batch. (Thank Heavens!) You won't believe how easy these are to make! Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. You begin by putting 1/2 c. water & 1/4 c. butter into a saucepan. Bring it just to a boil as the butter melts into the water. As the butter melts into the water, sift 1/2 c. flour and 1/8 tsp. salt onto a piece of waxed paper. I hardly ever sift any more, but this step is important in this case. When the water starts to boil, add the flour/salt mixture all at once and start to stir quickly. Lower the heat. The mixture will leave the sides of the pan and form a ball of dough. Remove it from the heat. Add 2 eggs, one at a time, to the mixture, beating with a mixer after each addition. Continue beating until the batter is smooth and glossy. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. I used my medium cookie scoop from Pampered Chef to scoop out rounded cream puff shapes onto the paper. As you can see I got 10 regular sized shapes and a little tiny bit of left over dough that I decided to bake for the fun of it. I thought to myself, "These should make nice little bite-sized puffs!" Ha! Wait and see! Bake them at 400 degrees for 30 min. then reduce the heat to 350 and bake for 10 min. more. Test for doneness by removing one puff from the oven for a couple of minutes. If it falls, leave the rest in for 5 more minutes. Let them cool on the cookie sheet. See how huge they are? I was shocked! After they have cooled, cut the top of the puff open. Inside you will find mostly air, but a little bit of wet feeling cooked batter. Simply pull this stuff out, leaving a hollow puff. Here are the before and after pictures and a photo of about how much stuff I pulled out. Now your puffs are ready to fill. Since these were just practice puffs, I just filled them with a french vanilla instant pudding and used a thinned down store frosting to top them. When I get a smaller scoop, I will share with you the recipe for the custard filling that I will use to fill them. YUM! But wait! Where is the tiny one you ask? Well, I can only say, "It was delicious!"
Hope you try these for yourselves. They make a surprising, fun dessert.
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. Yes! We finally went to Disneyland. We had so much fun with Alicia, Adrian and Adriancito. But, the real purpose of this post is to tell you that my job is over, summer is here and the real art of blogging is about to begin. Over the past weeks, while I haven't been blogging, I have been taking pictures of so many things to tell you about. I just haven't had the time or energy to get to the blogging part. I am so excited to get started now! Here are a few more shots of my cute grandson at Disneyland. As you can see by his face, he didn't really love the carousel. Next, My daughter Lindsey got engaged and is marrying her fiance Austin! I wanted to post pictures of her beautiful ring on her beautiful finger, but I can't make that happen from Facebook. Now, here is one more fabulous announcement! My #5 grandson made his entrance into the world this month! More photos! Welcome little Spencer! We are so excited that you are finally here! Now, you are probably wondering If I am only going to give you a family update or give you any useful information. Sorry, But I couldn't resist letting you see the people I love. As a matter or fact, that leads right into an idea that I have been wanting to share. Here is a great idea that my son had for our recent family get together and I think it could work great for a family reunion activity or something. My son is really into baseball. Behind the church building that he and his family attends, there is a baseball field that he was able to get access to. We live in the same city with many of my husband's siblings. We try to get together with them about once a month, just to keep those family bonds strong. For the month of April, We held a family Home Run Derby! We brought a grill and had hamburgers and hot dogs. There was pie, cookis and lots of other good things to eat. Everyone took turns batting and it was a lot of fun. It was surprising to see how many great hitters we have in our family! It was also really fun to do something active and not just sit around eating and talking. In honor or the occasion, I decided to make some baseball cookies. I had thought about cake pops, but they seemed like too much work. Here are my baseball cookies. They were really simple sugar cookies, and tasty!
Well, summer has just begun and I have a lot more things to share. Our garden is going great and I will be posting about some of the things we do with that. I will probably post about coming wedding ideas and a lot of remodeling news! I will be updating so much more. I hope you will be here to read and comment! (Coming soon...Zucchini Relish!) |
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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