Cream Puff Swans Recipe
Ingredients
| Water | 1/2 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Butter/Margarine | 1/4 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Flour | 1/2 Cup (16 tbs), sifted | |
| Salt | 1/4 Teaspoon | |
| Eggs | 2 | |
| Heavy cream, whipped | ||
| Confectioner's Sugar | ||
Directions
GETTING READY
1. Preheat the oven to 425°F
2. Grease 2 cookie sheets with butter or oil
MAKING
3. In a heavy bottomed saucepan, combine milk and butter.
4. Bring to a rapid boil over a medium high flame.
5. Add salt and flour all at once and stir vigorously to get a smooth dough ball.
6. Take pan off the heat and allow cooling for 10 minutes.
7. Transfer to a large mixing bowl
8. When cool enough, add eggs, one at a time, beating with an electric beater until each egg is incorporated in the dough until the dough is thick and firm
9. Use a large tablespoon to drop the batter into 4 mounds onto the greased baking sheets, 3 inches apart.
10. Using the back of the spoon, flatten and elongate one side of each mound, to make the tail of the swan.
11. Spoon remaining paste in a pastry bag with a plain nozzle.
12. Pipe out S-shapes to make swans' necks, on the second cookie sheet.
13. Bake puffs and necks in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
14. Remove cookie sheet with necks from oven within 15 minutes or until browned.
15. Allow puffs and necks to cool.
FINALIZING
16. Slice off 1/3 from the top of each puff saving the tops.
17. Spoon or pipe whipped cream into each puff cavaty.
18. Make swan wings by cutting the reserved tops in half and pressing them into the filling in the puffs.
19. Insert the neck into the filling.
SERVING
20. Arrange the swans in a dessert plate.
21. Dust with Confectioner’s sugar.
22. Serve immediately before the puffs go soggy
1. Preheat the oven to 425°F
2. Grease 2 cookie sheets with butter or oil
MAKING
3. In a heavy bottomed saucepan, combine milk and butter.
4. Bring to a rapid boil over a medium high flame.
5. Add salt and flour all at once and stir vigorously to get a smooth dough ball.
6. Take pan off the heat and allow cooling for 10 minutes.
7. Transfer to a large mixing bowl
8. When cool enough, add eggs, one at a time, beating with an electric beater until each egg is incorporated in the dough until the dough is thick and firm
9. Use a large tablespoon to drop the batter into 4 mounds onto the greased baking sheets, 3 inches apart.
10. Using the back of the spoon, flatten and elongate one side of each mound, to make the tail of the swan.
11. Spoon remaining paste in a pastry bag with a plain nozzle.
12. Pipe out S-shapes to make swans' necks, on the second cookie sheet.
13. Bake puffs and necks in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
14. Remove cookie sheet with necks from oven within 15 minutes or until browned.
15. Allow puffs and necks to cool.
FINALIZING
16. Slice off 1/3 from the top of each puff saving the tops.
17. Spoon or pipe whipped cream into each puff cavaty.
18. Make swan wings by cutting the reserved tops in half and pressing them into the filling in the puffs.
19. Insert the neck into the filling.
SERVING
20. Arrange the swans in a dessert plate.
21. Dust with Confectioner’s sugar.
22. Serve immediately before the puffs go soggy
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