Homemade Cream Puffs Recipe
The easiest recipe for homemade cream puffs. Light and airy cream puffs with a dulce de leche buttercream filling. SO GOOD!
Ingredients
cream puffs-
- 1 cup water
- 8 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, measured then sifted
- 2 tsp granulated sugar
- pinch of salt
- 4 large eggs
Dulce de Leche filling-
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temp (2 sticks)
- 14 oz dulce de leche (cooked condensed milk)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Cover two large baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside.
- In a medium saucepan, over med/high heat, add water and butter and cook until mixture comes to a soft boil. Turn off heat.
- Add the combined sugar, salt, and flour at once and stir quickly until everything is incorporated.
- Transfer mixture to a mixing bowl and start allow the mixture to slightly cool. You don't want it hot!Beat in one egg at a time, beating after each addition.
- Fill a piping bag with some of the cream puff mixture Pipe small cream puffs (a little bigger than a regular teaspoon but round). Once piped, slightly flatted the top of the batter.
- Bake 10 minutes at 400°F. Turn heat down to 365°F and bake another 20 minutes, or until golden in color. Set aside to completely cool.
- Pipe cream into the bottom of the puffs or slice puffs in half and add cream and close, like a sandwich. Dust cream puffs with powdered sugar. Enjoy, friends!