I found this recipe online and because I’m a HUGE fan of Beard Papa’s, I decided to try making my own cream puffs. The first time I ever went to Japan my Father-in-Law took me to Beard Papa’s in Obihiro and we ended up buying a 24 pack and scoffing the lot over 2 days. Oh my god, but what heaven they are!
Nothing can replace BP’s, but I did want to be able to have something close and as we are having a lunch for our Japanese friends and their Aussie partners coming up in mid-July, I thought this would be the perfect dessert.
Of course, because I haven’t made it before, I needed to do a practice run.
Yasu had forewarned me that shuu pastry is extraordinarily hard to make and fiddly. LFM’s recipe wasn’t like that at all. It just involved cooking the majority of the pastry in a pot on the stove and then mixing in eggs, piping it out onto baking trays and baking them.
They puffed right up into little golden puffs! The filling involved whipping cream and sugar – and our electric mixer broke about a month ago and we haven’t replaced it. Luckily I had enough arm power to beat it into soft peaks but it was quite a workout. Then I mixed in marscapone cheese and lemon curd, and folded the cream mix back into the marscapone/lemon mix. This became the filling which was piped into the puffs.
It takes time, about an hour and a half total, but it was worth it and now I can’t leave those poor little cream puffs alone! I hope there is enough left when Yasu gets home from work tonight ha ha ;)
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they look amazing, have always wanted to try them but people always say shuu pastry is difficult, might give them a try after seeing these, as a kid I remember mum making chocolate eclairs, save one for Yasu…
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Kelly Reply:
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Thanks Desley! I’m pretty surprised at how well they turned out for a first time, I kind of expected a disaster… If anything a tip I have is don’t fill them with the cream until you plan to eat them. The only mistake I have made is that I filled them all and then Yasu called to say he won’t finish work til 8pm so they may be soggy by then but oh well. I have lots of cream left over so will make more tomorrow. :)
Yum! Chocolate eclairs…haven’t had one for years!
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YUM!!! You make it sound easy and they look delicious:)
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Kelly Reply:
July 3rd, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Thanks Marianne! :)
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They look fantastic, well done Kelly. I always considered shucream to be something one bought since they are cheap and easy to find in Japan, but your ones look so much nicer than the store ones!
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Kelly Reply:
July 3rd, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Thanks Shufu! :) I’m pretty chuffed with how they turned out. I’ve got some cream left over so making another batch today. Yasu was suitably impressed enough last night that he ate the whole lot haha!
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