Creamy and Puffy Desserts

Cream Puffs

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup all purpose flour
4 eggs
Pudding, whipped cream,
ice cream, sherbet, or
fresh fruit
Powdered sugar (optional) In a med. saucepan combine butter, 1 cup water, and /8 tsp. salt. Bring to boiling. Add flour all at once, stirring vigorously. Cook and stir till mix forms a ball that doesn't separate. Remove from heat. Cool 10 min. Add eggs, one at a time, beating with a wooden spoon after each addition till smooth.
Drop batter by heaping tbsp., 3 inches apart, onto a greased baking sheet. Bake at 400 for 30-35 min. or till golden. Cool on a wire rack. Split puffs, and remove any soft dough from inside. Fill with the pudding, whipped cream, ice cream sherbet, of fresh fruit. Replace tops. Lightly sift powdered sugar over the tops. Makes 10
Eclairs:
Prepare as above, except spoon batter into a pastry tube fitted with a number 10 or larger tip. Slowly pipe strips of batter onto a greased baking sheet, making each strip about 4 inches long, 3/4 inches wide, and 1 inch high. Bake, split, and cool as above. Fill with pudding or whipped cream. Frost with chocolate glaze . Makes 12.

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