FOOD
Christmas Pudding Cream Puffs
Add a little pudding to your puffs with chocolate puffs filled with pastry cream and topped with white glaze.
FOOD
Christmas Pudding Cream Puffs
Add a little pudding to your puffs with chocolate puffs filled with pastry cream and topped with white glaze.
Ingredients
Christmas Pudding Cream Puffs
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup unsalted butter, cold and cut into cubes
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 4 large eggs
Pastry Cream
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- pinch salt
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 cups milk
- 4 large egg yolks
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter, cold
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
Glaze
- 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
- 3 tbsp whipping cream
- red and green piping gel
Steps
Christmas Pudding Cream Puffs
- In a large pot, combine the water, butter, sugar and salt. Set to high heat and bring to a boil.
- Stir in the flour and cocoa powder with a wooden spoon mix until a film forms on the bottom of the pan. Transfer the dough to a bowl and cool for 3-4 minutes.
- Add the eggs one at a time, stirring vigorously and completely incorporating each egg after each addition.
- Transfer the dough to a piping bag fitted with a large, round piping tip and pipe 1 ½-inch rounds onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
- Wet your fingers and smooth any pointed peaks.
- Bake them at 375F for 30 minutes. Cool on the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
Pastry Cream
- Combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt in a pot. Add the milk, egg yolks and cocoa powder and whisk together.
- Set to medium heat and whisk constantly until it comes to a boil.
- Once it thickens, remove from the heat and add the vanilla extract and butter.
- Strain through a sieve and cover with plastic wrap, pressing it directly on the surface.
- Refrigerate until chilled. If the pastry cream becomes lumpy, pulse in a food processor a couple times.
- Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a round tip. Poke holes in the base of the cream puffs and fill with pastry cream.
Glaze
- To decorate, combine the confectioner’s sugar and whipping cream in a bowl. Spoon over the cream puffs.
- Pipe holly onto the top of each cream puff with the piping gel. Enjoy!