Cream puff dough

12 lg. puffs

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Butter
1 cup Water
¼ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 cup Flour
4 Eggs

Directions

These are Zephyr light!

Put butter, water, salt, and sugar into saucepan. Heat until butter melts. Reduce heat. Stir in flour until ball forms. Remove from heat and put into mixer bowl. Beat in eggs one at a time. Put dough into pastry tube with a ½-inch nozzle. Squeeze out ½" for miniature cream puffs (or 3 inches for eclairs, or 2 inches balls for cream puffs) ontoungreased cookie sheets.

Bake in preheated oven (450ø) for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350ø F. and bake miniatures for 5 minutes, eclairs for 20 minutes, and creampuffs for 25 minutes. Cool away from drafts. Cut off tops and pull out soft dough. Fill and replace tops. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Refrigerate.

Makes 12 large cream puffs. Filling: May be vanilla pudding, whipped cream, custard, or hor d'oeuvre dip.

Farmer's Daughter Cookbook by Kandy Norton Henely typed and posted by teri chesser

Submitted By TERI CHESSER On 08-01-95

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