Misc Desserts

Strawberry Puffs

  • 1 cup Water
  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • 1 cup Flour
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups Icing Sugar
  • 1/2 cups Butter
  • 1 teaspoons Milk, hot
  • Extra Icing Sugar
  • 1/2 cups Strawberries, mashed

    • Bring to boil water and butter; boil briskly until butter melts, sift in flour and stir gently until mixture leaves thesides of the saucepan.

    Cool for 3 minutes.

    Add eggs (one at a time) and beat until smooth.

    Put talbespoons on a greasedcake tin and bake for 45 minutes in a good oven.

    When cold fill with Strwberry filling: Cream icing sugar and butter, add hot milk and mashed strawberries, then add icing sugar to make a soft and creamy filling.

    Split each puff at one sideand insert filling.

    Put a small teaspoonful on top and decorate with a halved strawberry.

    This recipe courtesy of the From My Kitchen Cookbook. 

    Contributed by Denisse Yvanovich of Melbourne (Australia). 

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