I've had them where there was ice cream inside. The named Profiteroles. Was dining at one restaurant where they put coffee ice cream and then hot fudge sauce. My cousin has a restaurant here and he does it this way and it's omg yum! Homemade chocolate sauce.
I love cream puffs. One time I filled them with egg salad and chicken salad, labeling each. Boy, was that a flop. I guess everyone thought that the pastry had sugar in it and thought that would not go together. Well, we had lots of leftovers. My family enjoyed them. It's a shame that most of the people were not adventurous enough to try something different. I love them and napoleons. Enjoy Easter.
Cream Puffs are kind of fun to make--always a surprise that flour, milk and eggs cooked into such a thick goo can turn out so puffy and light. Of course the sweet ones are my favorite, but have used bowl sized cream puffs to hold chicken salad or ham salad. Very nice luncheon dish. There is no sugar in the shell on any recipe I have ever seen. Perhaps a diabetic could use sugar-free pudding in them.
I had forgotten all about it, but your post reminded me that my mother made cream puffs filled with chicken salad on occasion. They were delicious. Thanks for the memory jog.
Trinijig
Oct 21, 2015
I love making puffs, and in our country you find them at most all bakeries. Here you will hardly ever find them fill with cream. We fill them with chicken, cheese, ham just about anything that can be made with mayo.
Coravee
Oct 22, 2015
That sounds good! Here in bakeries they are only cream filled (sort of a vanilla pudding.) But Bisquick Co. had a series of recipes a few years ago for making the big ones with ham salad, and another large one seasoned to use for a taco salad. Fun to experiment with.
never had them
mystery today