Making Cream Puffs at Home (Croquembouche)

This is my version of my mom's recipe for cream puffs:

Ingredients for the Cream Puffs:

1/2 cup water
1/4 cup butter (i used salted)
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 whole eggs
pinch salt (if not using salted butter)

Pastry Cream:

1 1/2 cups whole milk
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons corn starch
1/2 Tablespoon flour
2 Tablespoons butter
1 Teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste

You can get creative with flavouring the pastry cream. In the video, I also used:

matcha flavour: use 1 Teaspoon green tea powder
strawberry flavour: use 1 Tablespoon strawberry powder and 1 Tablespoon strawberry jam

Other notes and tips:

1. Use egg wash if you're not covering the puffs with caramel
2. After the first bake, you can dry the puffs further using the residual heat of a switched-off oven
3. Puffs can be stored in a sealed container for two days, and rebaked on convection for 10 minutes before serving

Be very careful when working with hot caramel -- I had to put the camera down while I was coating the puffs and making the spun sugar. I'll make a another video about it in the future!

Please comment down below - happy to hear from everyone!

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