
Clementine Cream Puffs
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Clementine Cream Puffs
Published on January 30, 2023
8.4M followers
1h 10 min
12 servings
Ingredients:
For the Craquelin:
- •1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- •1/3 cup light brown sugar
- •1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- •5 drops yellow food coloring
- •1 drop orange food coloring
For the Marmalade:
- •10 clementines, chopped
- •1 1/2 cups sugar
- •2 tablespoons lemon juice
For the Clementine Cream Puffs:
- •1/2 cup unsalted butter
- •1 teaspoon sugar
- •1/2 teaspoon salt
- •1 cup water
- •1 1/2 cups flour
- •4 eggs
- •1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- •1 tablespoon clementine juice
- •Zest of 1 clementine
- •Mint, to garnish
Instructions:
For the Craquelin:
- •In a medium bowl, mix softened butter with brown sugar until blended; add flour and lightly mix.
- •Add food coloring and knead until combined and smooth.
- •Roll out into a 1/4-inch layer, and use a 1-inch round cookie cutter to cut into discs.
For the Marmalade:
- •In a medium saucepan, combine chopped clementines, sugar and lemon juice.
- •Bring to a simmer and cook until thickened. Allow to cool.
For the Clementine Cream Puffs:
- •Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- •In a medium saucepan, bring butter, sugar, salt and water to a boil. Add the flour all at once and mix until it starts to pull away from the sides of the pan. Remove from the heat and beat in eggs one at a time.
- •Using a piping bag with a 1/2-inch round tip, pipe 1 inch by 1 inch portions of the choux dough onto prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
- •Top with a disc of the craquelin. Bake for 25 minutes or until puffed and golden, rotating the pan halfway through the cooking process. Remove from the oven and let cool on a rack.
- •In a large mixing bowl, whip cream, clementine juice and zest until stiff peaks form.
- •Slice a cream puff in half. Pipe 1/4 cup of the whipped cream mixture on the bottom.
- •Pipe a teaspoon of the marmalade in the middle of the cream and top with the other half. Garnish with mint.