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:
- Bring water and butter to boil. using a low flame, add flour and stir till non stick . Cool.
- Add eggs and stir till smooth. put in a piping bag and pipe about 12 rounds onto a greased-proof paper .
- Brush each round with egg yolk. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 C for 20 to 30 mins till golden and dry.
- 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.
- Bake in the oven is the same manner.
- Combine eggs, cornflour, sugar and milk , stir over low heat till thicken and smooth. Add butter and vanilla. Stir till smooth.
- 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.
- Fix back the wings and the head in position so to look like a swan in the picture.
- Sieve icing sugar over the swans.
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