Cute Cream Puff Swans Recipe....

Ain't this cute!!!

Ingredients:

For the choux pastry:

• 40gm butter
• 1/2 cup water
• 50gm flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 yolk , beaten ,for glazing

For filling:

• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 50 gm sugar
• 2/3 cup fresh milk
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

For the cream, whipped till thicken:

• 1/2 cup whip cream
• 1/2 tbsp sugar
• Icing sugar for dusting

How to make Cream puff swan:

1. Bring water and butter to boil. using a low flame, add flour and stir till non stick . Cool. 
2. Add eggs and stir till smooth. put in a piping bag and pipe about 12 rounds onto a greased-proof paper . 
3. Brush each round with egg yolk. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 C for 20 to 30 mins till golden and dry. 
4. Pipe the remaining dough into an "S" shape with more thick at top of the "S" to mark the head of the swan. Using a match stick, scratch a deep cut for the eyes. 
5. Bake in the oven is the same manner. 
6. Combine eggs, cornflour, sugar and milk , stir over low heat till thicken and smooth. Add butter and vanilla. Stir till smooth. 
7. Slice choux pastry open resemble a lit . Cut the lit into half resemble the wings of the swan. Fill the custard into the pastry and pipe whipped cream on custard. 
8. Fix back the wings and the head in position so to look like a swan in the picture. 
9. Sieve icing sugar over the swans.