derishus&nutrishus: Profiteroles

For February, I baked Profiteroles (cream puffs)!

Mama hosted a party for her friends and cooked lots of very delicious food: spaghetti, fresh salad, egg quiche, and more! For dessert, we ate the cream puffs and fresh strawberries. It was fun!

Making the cream puffs was actually a lot of work. I followed a recipe from our Kitchen Bible cookbook but I still had to ask my sister for help with piping the dough.

First, you cook the dough ingredients (read: copious amounts of butter) in a pot and mix it. Then you take it off the stove and add eggs, etc. to make it shiny. It became pretty tough to mix and started hurting my arm muscles. Or I don't think I even had arm muscles until after I finished mixing the dough. It made my shoulder painful. *cry

....looks so appetizing !/!11

Then the dough is piped into cream puff-like shapes.

Like so.

Once you have baked them in the oven for 15 minutes, you have to take them out and then horizontally cut slits in each puff so that you can add the filling in later!

Cream puffs chillin on a grill

Then you leave them overnight (or I did, at least, because the party was the next day) and move on to the filling. I didn't put whipped cream or heavy cream in the puffs as is usually done because I don't really know why. Instead, the puffs were filled with custard and drizzled with chocolate!

It was so tasty and there was a lot leftover, so we just ate it.

The next day, early in the morning, I had to get up and fill ze puffs with custard. It was kind of a weird experience because I'm not always half-asleep while scooping custard into cream puffs.

Then we drizzled melted chocolate over them!

COMPLEEEEETE

Well, it was a lot of work and stress (because I'm a noob and burned my wrist from a baking pan) but it was so fun to eat and watch other people eat ze puffs. Unfortunately they were really unhealthy, what with all of the butter and egg yolks and milk and half-and-half that was used... but I still had fun making and sharing them.

Thank you for reading. Bye bye!