How to Prepare Delicious Cream Puffs

Cream Puffs.

You can have Cream Puffs using 14 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cream Puffs

1. You need of Choux pastry.
2. You need 1/4 cup of unsalted butter.
3. It's 1/2 cup of water.
4. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
5. It's 1 teaspoon of sugar.
6. It's 1/2 cup of + 1 tablespoon flour.
7. It's 2 of eggs.
8. It's of Filling.
9. You need 1 cup of chilled, heavy whipping cream.
10. Prepare 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
11. Prepare of Optional Toppings.
12. You need of Melted chocolate.
13. You need of Powdered sugar for dusting.
14. It's of Sliced strawberries.

Cream Puffs instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Place a metal or glass bowl, along with your whisks into the freezer for your whipped cream.
4. Choux Pastry: Over medium heat in a saucepan, melt butter.
5. Add in water, sugar & salt, then bring to a boil.
6. Once boiling, remove from heat & stir in flour with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula - it should eventually form a ball.
7. Set aside & let this cool for about 7 minutes.
8. In a small bowl, beat the eggs.
9. Add this to the dough then stir together till mixture is thick & shiny.
10. Put batter into a piping bag or sturdy ziploc bag; snip the tip/corner off.
11. On a parchment paper lined baking sheet, pipe 2 inch mounded circles, one inch apart. *To get rid of any peaks, dip your finger into water & slightly press down onto your piped batter*.
12. Bake at 400° for 20 to 22 minutes. Let cool..
13. Filling: Add your chilled, heavy whipping cream to the bowl & powdered sugar.
14. Whip this until stiff peaks form, it takes a bit but is worth the effort.
15. Assembly: After the choux buns are cooled, slice them in half, horizontally.
16. Either pipe or spoon in the whipped cream onto the bottom half of the bun; additionally, add on the strawberries at this point.
17. Place on the top, and drizzle on the melted chocolate or dust with powdered sugar.
18. ENJOY~.