Sandra's Easy Cooking: Delicious Cream Puffs

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Sandra's Easy Cooking: Delicious Cream Puffs:

You will need:
2 cups of skim milk
1 stick of unsalted butter
2 cups of all purpose flour
1 Tbs. of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
8 eggs
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-Bring milk, butter, sugar and salt to boil
-Put the flour all at once(with baking powder) and mix rapidly until the dough cook and it forms a ball
-Turn off the heat and let the dough cool down a bit (I waited for 5 minutes)
-Mix eggs in the bowl and pour just a little at the time, mixing as hard as you can with your wooden spoon. It is real workout just to let you know.. honestly next time I will use electric mixer!:))
-When all the eggs are incorporated put it on the side
-Preheat the oven on 375F
- Use spoon or Head/neck: round tube with 1/5 inch
Body:round tube (2/5 inch) to push them out in a un-greased baking pan
-Spray the puff shells with water. The puff shells will stop growing as soon as the surface turns dry (and crunchy). Therefore, when spraying the puff shells with water, it takes more time before they turn dry and they grow bigger in the oven.
-Bake but DO NOT OPEN the oven for the next 30 minutes +20 min. to dry
The 20 minutes are needed to dry the surface of the puff shells and make it more crunchy. Otherwise, it is too soft. The puff shells look well done after 30 minutes already… that’s normal. I let them rest in the turned off oven for 20 minutes and than 10 more out of the oven.
-Cut them and fill when they are cooled down.

For the filling:

-Mix 3 cups of cold skim milk(fat free) with large vanilla pudding, about 2 minutes until it forms. Add 4 Tbs. Of Whipped Cream and combine well just by folding.
Put it in the fridge!
*I added 1 teaspoon of the fat free whipped cream on top of the pudding, but it optional. Also you can toss some powdered sugar or chocolate rind on top like I did..after all my cream puff were gone I totally forgot about sugar sooo you could do it!!!

Take a big bite and Enjoy!!!

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