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    Posted November 3, 2009 by
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    'Gourmet' meals at home

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    Cream Puffs and Chocolate Eclairs Delicacy

     

    This is a recipe I have been preparing for many years. Simply recipe to compose; also (I think) is very scrumptious!  Give it a try and let me know how this recipe works out for you!

     

    **Sunethra, sorry wasn't able post this original recipe yesterday. We are remodeling our house, so wasn't able to find my recipe binder. **

     

    Cream Puffs:

    ½ cup water

    ¼ margarine or butter

    ½ cups of all-purposed flour

    2 eggs

     

    Cream Filling (below) or Sweetened Powered Sugar

    Heart oven to 440 degrees. Heat water and margarine to rolling boil in saucepan. Stir in Flour. Stir vigorously over low heart until mixture forms a ball, about 1 minute; remove from heart. Beat in eggs, all at once; continue beating until smooth. Drop dough by scant ¼ cupfuls about 3 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.

    Bake until puffed and golden, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool away from draft. Cut off tops; pull out any filaments of soft dough. Fill puffs with Cream Fillings. Replace tops; dust with powdered sugar. Refrigerate until serving time. Makes 6 cream puffs.

     

    Cream Filling:

    ½ cup sugar

    2 tablespoons salt

    2 cups milk

    2 egg yolks, slightly beaten

    2 tablespoons margarine or butter, softened

    2 teaspoons vanilla

     

    Mix Sugar, cornstarch and salt in 2-quart saucepan. Stir in milk gradually. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir at least half of the hot mixture gradually into egg yolks. Blend into hot mixture. Boil and stir 1 minute. Remove from heart; stir in margarine and vanilla; cool.

    Chocolate Eclair:

    Drop dough by scant ¼ cupfuls into ungreased cookie sheet. Shape each into finger 4 ½ inches long and 1 ½ inches wide with spatula. Bake; cool. Fill puffs with Cream Filling. Frost with Chocolate Frosting (below). Refrigerate until serving time. Makes 6 Eclairs.

    Chocolate Frosting:

    Heat ½ square (1/2 ounce) unsweetened chocolate and ½ teaspoon margarine or butter over low heat until melted. Remove from heat; stir in ½ cup powdered sugar and about 1 tablespoon hot water. Beat until smooth.

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