Chocolate-Orange Cream Puffs
Prep: 25 min | Cook: 20 min | Yield: 16 cream puffs
Ingredients
Orange Puffs
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- Powdered sugar
Chocolate Cream Filling
- 1 cup (6 ounces) Nestlé® Toll House® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
- Dash salt
Instructions
Orange Puffs
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease baking sheet.
- Combine water, butter, orange peel in small saucepan; heat over medium-high heat until mixture boils. Remove from heat. Add flour all at once and stir vigorously until mixture holds together and leaves side of pan and forms a ball. Add eggs, one at a time, stirring well after each addition. Mixture should be smooth and satiny. Drop dough by level measuring tablespoonsful, 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheet, making 16 mounds.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Reduce heat to 350 degrees F; bake for 10 additional minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove puffs to wire rack cool completely.
- With serrated knife, cut each puff in half horizontally. Spoon about 1 heaping measuring tablespoon of Chocolate Filling onto bottom of each puff. Replace top. Dust with powdered sugar.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour or until ready to serve.
Chocolate Cream Filling
- Melt morsels and orange juice in small, heavy-duty saucepan over low heat, stirring until morsels are melted and mixture is smooth. Transfer mixture to large bowl; cool for 10 minutes.
- Beat cream, powdered sugar and salt in small mixer bowl until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into cooled chocolate mixture.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from: Nestlé® and meals.com
