Cherry Cream Puff Ring

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 1 (3 3/4 ounce) box vanilla instant pudding mix
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Heat water and butter to boiling in a 1 quart saucepan; stir in flour. Stir vigorously until mixture forms a ball, about 1 minute. Remove from heat.
3. Add eggs; beat until smooth.
4. Drop dough by tablespoonful onto greased cookie sheet to form an 8 inch ring. (To form ring, place an 8-inch round cake pan on cookie sheet and trace around it; drop dough inside circle.) Smooth with spatula.
5. Bake until puffed and golden, 50 to 60 minutes.
6. Cool ring.
7. Cut off top with sharp knife; pull out any soft dough.
8. Beat milk, sour cream, dry pudding mix and extract in small bowl on low speed until blended, about 1 minute.
9. Fill cream puff ring with pudding mixture; spoon 1/2 cup of cherry pie filling onto pudding mixture. Replace top of cream puff ring and spoon remaining cherry filling on top.
10. Refrigerate until serving time.