This is a more like a Japanese style of home made cream puff with custard filling instead of whipped cream. All ingredients are easily found in the kitchen and very simple to prepare.
Ingredients:
Puff
- 3 tablespoons of butter
- 2 teaspoons of sugar
- 1/2 cup of water
- 1/2 cup of all purpose flour
- 1 whole egg
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tablespoon of corn flour
- 1/4 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of milk
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon of melted butter
Steps:
Puff
- Preheat the oven to 190 degree Celsius.Add sugar, butter and water in a pan and bring to boil.
- Move the pan off heat and add flour in the butter mixture and stir quickly with a wooden spoon.
- Add in eggs and egg whites in the mixture, stir and mix until no more lumpy flour.
- Using a square baking paper, fold it diagonally twice to create a triangle like a coffee filter, or you can use a clean plastic bag.
- Pour the dough in the baking paper, cut off the tip and squeeze out as small mounds on a baking paper lining on baking tray.
- Bake them in the oven for 30 minutes. Cool the puffs and slice it halves horizontally.
- Add egg yolks and sugar in a pan without heat.
- Add in corn flour in the pan and stir until smooth.
- Add in warm milk in the pan gradually and put the pan on low heat and stir the mixture until thickened.
- Move the pan off heat and add in butter and mix well.
- Fill the puffs with cream and you are ready for a hearty dessert.