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Post by librarylady on Feb 9, 2021 3:33:34 GMT
My mother made cream puffs from time to time. When the community had a fund raising bake sale she took them to the bake sale.
My sister made some to take to a SB party on Sunday and to take more to her office today.
No one in her office had heard of them or eaten them and approached the dessert with caution.
At the SB party some ate them but called them souffle'
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Post by seaexplore on Feb 9, 2021 3:35:00 GMT
OMG! They're AMAZING! I get the ones from Costco and devour them! I seriously have to walk away or I will eat the entire container (and be horribly ill)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 3:36:20 GMT
I learned how to make them in my Home Ec class in high school. I can't stand them though!
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Post by mnmloveli on Feb 9, 2021 3:36:35 GMT
Cream Puffs have always been a big hit when I bring them to parties. I made them this Christmas. Mmmmm
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 9, 2021 3:43:06 GMT
I couldn’t answer because there wasn’t an option of “Eww! NO!” LOL. My mom’s twin sister LOVED cream puffs and eclairs and would make them all.the.time. She would bring them over and the rest of my family would eat them. I don’t like the texture of whipped cream at all and won’t eat anything that includes it. It’s nasty!
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Post by myshelly on Feb 9, 2021 3:43:29 GMT
I shamelessly love the ones you buy in the big tub in the frozen section.
We buy a tub and pass them back and forth down the couch while we watch tv.
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Post by huskermom98 on Feb 9, 2021 3:43:53 GMT
I haven't had them for years, but I can say I've made them...about 35 years ago in elementary school! I would like to try making them again, but I'm afraid I'd eat too many.
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Post by chendra on Feb 9, 2021 3:45:17 GMT
Cream puffs are definitely not soufflé! Remember when it was fancy to make them look like swans?
This reminds me that I once ordered mini cream puffs for a friend's bridal shower and the bakery forgot to fill them. They were just empty pastries and we all pretended that was perfectly normal.
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Post by librarylady on Feb 9, 2021 3:47:01 GMT
I couldn’t answer because there wasn’t an option of “Eww! NO!” LOL. My mom’s twin sister LOVED cream puffs and eclairs and would make them all.the.time. She would bring them over and the rest of my family would eat them. I don’t like the texture of whipped cream at all and won’t eat anything that includes it. It’s nasty! The ones in my family are filled with a filling that is almost pudding...rather like the creme in a creme donut. Not whipped cream.
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Post by garcia5050 on Feb 9, 2021 3:48:17 GMT
I also made them in home ec, but in middle school. I am ok with the big tub from Costco. BUT, if you’re ever around a Beard Papa, you or have to get some. They used to have them all around downtown Los Angeles, but now I think there’s a handful in all of Southern California. I believe it’s a chain from Japan. The whole thing is really light. I mean, I’m sure it’s full of fat but it is just like a cloud of heaven in your mouth.
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Post by librarylady on Feb 9, 2021 3:49:39 GMT
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Post by summer on Feb 9, 2021 3:53:11 GMT
My grandmother made the best cream puffs! Today would have been her birthday. Opening this thread and seeing the cream puff brought back memories and made me smile.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Feb 9, 2021 4:04:16 GMT
I know what they, and have eaten them before.
With that said, cream puffs would not be my first choice of desserts.
If that is all that's being offered, I will eat it. But, I would scrape off part of the cream. Texture wise, it's usually too much cream for me. I prefer a very thin layer of cream or any other filling in the middle, not a huge dollop.
It's not something I would serve in my home. In a dessert bar situation, I will pass the cream puffs by.
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Post by buddysmom on Feb 9, 2021 4:05:26 GMT
I am definitely not a baker. But back in the dark ages when I was a kid I made them--really easy and I liked them because they aren't too sweet. About 10+ years ago I made them for my family and no one would touch them. But my dog liked them--isn't that what counts?  |
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Post by Jen in NCal on Feb 9, 2021 4:12:58 GMT
We used to take the big CostCo tub houseboating. One trip we had a tennis match with them in the kitchen using a bug zapper tennis racket.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Feb 9, 2021 4:14:27 GMT
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Post by Julie W on Feb 9, 2021 4:19:49 GMT
My mom made them and topped them with a chocolate ganache. I do not care for the filling. My younger sister has taken over making them, and most people love them.
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Post by elaine on Feb 9, 2021 4:24:39 GMT
Cream puffs are definitely not soufflé! Remember when it was fancy to make them look like swans? This reminds me that I ordered mini cream puffs for a friend's bridal shower and the bakery forgot to fill them. They were just empty pastries and we all pretended that was perfectly normal. This! Soufflé are served in ramekins and eaten with a spoon. Cream puffs are free standing. No utensils necessary, unless you take a fork and knife to everything. |
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Post by Jili on Feb 9, 2021 4:26:29 GMT
I haven’t had one in years! I made them once, from a recipe in a Nora Roberts book my mom put in my stocking one year at Christmas! I remember them being surprisingly easy to make.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Feb 9, 2021 4:26:34 GMT
Yaassssss! Loved them since I was a kid. Sometimes homemade sometimes in the freezer tub from Sams. I’m pro whipped cream or custard version. Good either way. crazy4scraps we can’t be friends. 😉😂 |
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Post by Belle on Feb 9, 2021 4:30:22 GMT
I also made them in home ec, but in middle school. I am ok with the big tub from Costco. BUT, if you’re ever around a Beard Papa, you or have to get some. They used to have them all around downtown Los Angeles, but now I think there’s a handful in all of Southern California. I believe it’s a chain from Japan. The whole thing is really light. I mean, I’m sure it’s full of fat but it is just like a cloud of heaven in your mouth. The Beard Papa cream puffs are the best cream puffs ever! We have at least two Beard Papas in the Seattle area. Yum! We visited the Beard Papa in the Upper West Side of NYC a coupe of years ago. I have made cream puffs once or twice but usually just make chouquettes with pearl sugar for my family now. Chouquettes are the puffs without the filling. |
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Post by freecharlie on Feb 9, 2021 4:38:59 GMT
Before I was diagnosed with Celiac, I LOVED them
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Post by lucyg on Feb 9, 2021 4:43:56 GMT
OMG! They're AMAZING! I get the ones from Costco and devour them! I seriously have to walk away or I will eat the entire container (and be horribly ill) Make a dark chocolate sauce (I can give you my family’s super easy recipe if you want it) and drizzle that over the Costco cream puffs. O ... M ... G ... |
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Post by Skellinton on Feb 9, 2021 4:45:27 GMT
I love them. My grandma used to make them all the time. She would serve them with strawberries, but since I am allergic she would make a chocolate mousse like filling for mine. So delicious.
At my HS graduation she made so many for my party (they were the one food I requested) she was letting them cool in all sorts of cupboards in my mom’s kitchen. We found a tray over a week later! Poor little things were hard as little rocks.
I need to make some soon.
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Post by pjaye on Feb 9, 2021 4:49:28 GMT
When I was growing up (in Australia) we had the round cream puffs filled with whipped cream and dusted with icing sugar or long chocolate eclairs also filled with whipped cream and coated with a thin chocolate icing
These days we've fancied it up a bit, and now we call the small round ones profiteroles and they can be filled with whipped cream or Creme Patissiere
and they are dipped in chocolate ganache.
They are all made from the same basic choux pastry recipe though.
I can't imagine how you can not know what they are, or not have tried one, I always thought they were quite common in cake shops etc, and they usually do some version of a choux pastry on most baking shows.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 9, 2021 4:51:51 GMT
Yaassssss! Loved them since I was a kid. Sometimes homemade sometimes in the freezer tub from Sams. I’m pro whipped cream or custard version. Good either way. crazy4scraps we can’t be friends. 😉😂 What do you mean we can’t be friends? Who will I give my cream puffs to if we’re not friends?  Every time I forget to tell the wait staff to leave the whipped cream off of my milk shake (which is nearly EVERY time, ugh), I look around the table to see whose milk shake I can scrape it onto, LOL. The best friends to have are the ones who will happily take the stuff you hate and trade you for the stuff you love!  |
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Feb 9, 2021 4:56:14 GMT
Yaassssss! Loved them since I was a kid. Sometimes homemade sometimes in the freezer tub from Sams. I’m pro whipped cream or custard version. Good either way. crazy4scraps we can’t be friends. 😉😂 What do you mean we can’t be friends? Who will I give my cream puffs to if we’re not friends? Every time I forget to tell the wait staff to leave the whipped cream off of my milk shake (which is nearly EVERY time, ugh), I look around the table to see whose milk shake I can scrape it onto, LOL. The best friends to have are the ones who will happily take the stuff you hate and trade you for the stuff you love! Okay good point. I think my BFF is only friends with me because I don’t like shrimp. Whenever we go to Shoguns she gets my appetizer shrimp. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 5:00:50 GMT
Yup, I've had them. In fact, instead of a cake at our wedding reception we had cookies and cream puffs.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 9, 2021 5:00:53 GMT
I couldn’t answer because there wasn’t an option of “Eww! NO!” LOL. My mom’s twin sister LOVED cream puffs and eclairs and would make them all.the.time. She would bring them over and the rest of my family would eat them. I don’t like the texture of whipped cream at all and won’t eat anything that includes it. It’s nasty! The ones in my family are filled with a filling that is almost pudding...rather like the creme in a creme donut. Not whipped cream.
Well... I’m also not a fan of custard fillings, soooo... still nope.  DH brought home a donut for me and said, “You have to try this bismarck, it’s delicious!” I was all like, “Mmmm! I love a nice bismarck!” Cut the thing in half and it was filled with Boston Cream. What the heck!  And I was horribly disappointed. True story. ETA: I also don’t like any type of cream pies, no chocolate silk, nothing like that. |
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Post by seaexplore on Feb 9, 2021 5:01:34 GMT
OMG! They're AMAZING! I get the ones from Costco and devour them! I seriously have to walk away or I will eat the entire container (and be horribly ill) Make a dark chocolate sauce (I can give you my family’s super easy recipe if you want it) and drizzle that over the Costco cream puffs. O ... M ... G ... If I cooked, I’d totally take you up on the recipe. My husband went to culinary school after getting a BS in business management because he thought it might be fun to own a restaurant. This was in 2008 when the economy tanked. 🤣 Then we had our first kiddo and he became a SAHD and no longer wanted to own a restaurant. Anyway, he’s the cook here. |
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Every time I forget to tell the wait staff to leave the whipped cream off of my milk shake (which is nearly EVERY time, ugh), I look around the table to see whose milk shake I can scrape it onto, LOL. 
And I was horribly disappointed. True story.