A wonderful treat for Valentine’s Day! The dough-beating will need some exertion on your part, but just consider it as pre-burning calories. Once you’ve had one of them, it’s quite difficult to stop. Delicious! Additionally delicious when ice cream-filled and chocolate-dipped. These are good frozen.
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 cream puffs |
Ingredients
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- 1 pinch salt
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup cold whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 12 large strawberries, hulled
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar, or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Place a mixing bowl in the freezer.
- Combine water, butter, and salt in a saucepan; bring to a boil.
- Remove from the heat and immediately add flour; quickly beat in the flour with a wooden spoon, alternating between pressing on the dough and beating it quickly. Continue until dough has formed a ball and no longer sticks to the side of the pan.
- Add 1 egg, and using the same technique above, beat it in until dough has reached a smooth consistency. Repeat with the second egg. Beat until dough begins to break into strands, about 5 more minutes.
- Divide dough into 12 pieces. Round each piece and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until puffed up and browned, about 20 minutes. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
- Meanwhile, pour cold cream into the chilled mixing bowl. Add white sugar and beat with a hand mixer until light and fluffy.
- Slice across the tops of the cooled cream puffs just enough to open; they will be hollow inside. Put a heaping tablespoon whipped cream in the top and bottom cavities. Put a strawberry in the middle and close the two halves. Set on a plate and dust with powdered sugar.
- The cooking time for this recipe is for12 small puffs. You will have to increase the cooking time for larger puffs.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 109 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 7 g |
| Cholesterol | 55 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 30 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |