Monday, August 4, 2008

Cream Puffs with Strawberries

There is no question about it... California fruit tastes better! So after picking up a big bucket of delicious red strawberries, I wondered how to incorporate them into a light summer dessert. Cream puffs of course!
The dough for cream puffs are very simple, they are just a few things you need to have in mind, inorder for them to stay puffed!
Take 2 dl water and 100 gr butter, melt it together in a small pot. Then add 1/2 tsp sugar. Graudally add 100 gr flour. Whish until combined and heat well through. Take the pot of the heat and let cool for a few minutes. You do not want to mixture to be to hot, since you now need to add the eggs and if the mixture is too hot, you might scramble to eggs. Add one at a time a total of 3 eggs. Then take a tablespoon of the dough and spoon it onto a floured baking sheet. The recipes will make around 12 cream puffs. Bake at 390 degrees for about 25 min. Make sure you do not open the oven door the first 15-20 minutes. This might cause them to collapse.
I served these witha filling of my favorite vanilla custard and the sliced strawberries.

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