cream puffs

Recipe from culinary princess.

Ingredients

Pastry

1 cup (200ml) water
1/2 (150 gm) cup butter
1 cup (125 gm) flour
4 large eggs
1/2 tsp salt

1) Heat water and butter to rolling boil; reduce heat. Stir in flour and stir vigorously over low heat until mixture forms into a ball, about 1 minute.
2) Remove from heat. Beat in eggs; continue beating until smooth.
3) Heat oven to 200 degrees Celcius or 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
4) Use rounded teaspoonfuls (to tablespoonfuls, depending on the size you like) to make mounds about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
5) Bake puffs until they are puffed and golden brown, 20 to 30 minutes. Cool.
6) Slit each puff halfway and put in the custard filling.

Custard:

3/4 cups of brown sugar
1 cup of milk
2 tbs of butter
2 tps of vanilla essence
1/4 cup of cornstarch
1/2 can of corn kernels

1. Heat butter + sugar + milk till boiling. add cornstarch and vanilla essence.
2. Remove from heat. add in corn kernels.
3. Mix with mixer till smooth.
4. Fill puffs with 1tsp of custard and leave to cool before refrigerating.

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