Pâte à Choux (Cream Puff) with Custard Filling
Pâte à Choux (Cream Puff) is a luxury dessert that can be easily made at home. Since I have seven egg yolks left after making "beauty" dessert , I decided to use them to make custard filling for Pâte à Choux (cream puff). There is nothing like homemade creamy, milky and buttery custard to go with choux puff - it's so nice! I like to use microwave to make custard, very convenient and can save a lot of time. Within 10 minutes, smooth and creamy custard is ready (see recipe below). As for Pâte à Choux, you will never go wrong with Michael Rulman 's recipe. He blogged about Pâte à Choux twice in 2009, and the entries were posted in his cooking books, one of which is Elements of Cooking . He applies his famous ratio into this recipe: equal parts water and egg, half as much flour and butter. That's it. For those who are not...