Make this easy and delicious durian cream puffs using the leftover of durian flesh. The hollow cream puffs (choux pastry) is filled with easy and delicious durian creams. These are durian lovers’ favorite.
When durian is in season, some people will keep leftover durian flesh in the fridge for a purpose of using it in baking or dessert recipes like this durian snow skin mooncake. Durian cream puffs are also another popular durian-related dessert. Making choux pastry or cream puffs brought lots of childhood memories. My mom and aunts made choux pastry, or what we call as kue sus in Indonesia.
Making durian cream puffs pretty much follow the same steps as making basic choux pastry. The cream filling has pureed durian folded with whipped cream.
Let’s get baking, shall we?
1. Prepare durian cream filling
We only need heavy cream and pureed durian flesh to make the filling
Puree durian flesh in a blender until smooth.
Chill the mixing bowl in a fridge for 30 minutes. Pour in heavy cream and whip with a whisk attachment if using a stand mixer or hand mixer until medium-stiff peak. Fold in pureed durian into the whipped cream. Transfer to the piping bag and chill in the fridge until ready to be used
2. Make the choux pastry
Preheat oven at 375 F (190 C). Put the butter and water in a saucepan. Cook until butter melts
Lower the heat and add the flour and salt all at once
Keep stirring until you get a dough and you see a thin coating at the bottom of the pan
Remove from the heat and let it cools down for about 5 minutes
Add one egg at a time and stir
It seems to separate and hard to combine at first, but keep stirring until they are combined.
You can use your index finger to draw a line on the dough paste. The side of the line should maintain its shape. If it fall down, your dough is too runny already. You can also do a “V” tests. When you pull the dough up, it should drop down forming a “V” shape trail hanging down from your spatula. If it is, the dough is on the right consistency and you can stop adding egg. If it doesn’t drop down at all, it’s too thick. Beat another egg and try add half of the beaten egg and mix again and do the same “V” test until you reach that consistency I describe or the finger test
You can use a piping bag to pipe the choux batter onto a baking sheet lined with a parchment paper or you can use two spoons to shape the choux (as shown in the video). My mom and aunt do it the old-school way 🙂 You will get about 12 small choux pastry. Make sure they are about 1 inch apart
Use your slightly wet finger to smooth the pointy edges so they won’t get burnt when you bake them in the oven. Mist with some water or sprinkle some droplets of water on the baking tray. This will turn into steams that helps the choux to rise
3. Bake the choux pastry
Place the baking sheet in the oven, middle rack. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until they are golden brown. Do not open the oven door for the first 25 minutes during baking. Turn off the oven and let them sit in the oven for 10 minutes without opening the door. Then remove from the oven and poke a hole at the bottom to let them cool down completely on a cooling rack
4. Fill the choux pastry with the filling
When they have cooled down, cut the pastry into half and then pipe the filling into the hollow choux or you can use a piping bag to fill the choux from the hole at the bottom
5. Serve
Dust with some icing sugar and serve immediately. Only fill up as many as you want to serve
Crispy choux pastry crust with sweet creamy durian filling is quite a treat, especially if you really love anything durian 🙂
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Easy Durian Cream Puffs
Ingredients
Choux pastry:
- 60 gr butter
- 115 ml water
- 70 gr all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- 113 large eggs (room temperature) about 2 1/2 - 3 eggs
Durian cream filling:
- 500 gr durian flesh
- 80 ml heavy cream
For dusting:
Instructions
Prepare the durian cream filling:
- Puree durian flesh in a blender until smooth. Chill the mixing bowl in a fridge for 30 minutes. Pour in heavy cream and whip with a whisk attachment if using a stand mixer or hand mixer until medium-stiff peak
- Fold in pureed durian into the whipped cream. Transfer to the piping bag and chill in the fridge until ready to be used
Make the choux pastry:
- Preheat oven to 375 F. I have a conventional bottom heat oven no fan. If yours are convection , you may want to lower the temperature by about 15-20 degrees.
- Beat the eggs in a bowl with a whisk. It is very important that the eggs are not cold from the fridge. They need to be at room temperature
- In a medium saucepan, add water and butter. Bring to a boil to melt the butter and then lower the heat to the lowest and add flour and salt all at once and continue to stir vigorously until the mixture is well blended. Keep stirring for another minute or two to dry the dough. The dough should be smooth and shiny and you can see a layer that coat the bottom of the pan. Remove from the heat and let it cool down for about 3 minutes
- Add 1/4 of the egg and keep whisking. They will appear separate and look like big blob of mess. Just keep stirring and add another 1/4 and continue to gradually add as you stir until you get a paste consistency. You may not need all of the eggs or you may
- You can use your index finger to draw a line on the dough paste. The side of the line should maintain its shape. If it fall down, your dough is too runny already. You can also do a "V" tests. When you pull the dough up, it should drop down forming a "V" shape trail hanging down from your spatula. If it is, the dough is on the right consistency and you can stop adding egg. If it doesn't drop down at all, it's too thick. Beat another egg and try add half of the beaten egg and mix again and do the same "V" test until you reach that consistency I describe or the finger test
- Transfer the dough to the bag and pipe about 2-inch in size. Hold the bag straight and pipe upward. The tip should stay in touch with the dough paste. Make sure you pipe it "tall", not wide to the side. Make sure you have about 1-inch gap in between as the dough will expand a bit as it bakes. If you use spoons, just gently drop the dough on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Drop them "tall". Dip your finger in water and smooth out the top of the dough so the top won't burn during baking
- New update: Mist the tray with some water or drop some water droplets on the pan. This will turn into steams and help the choux to expand while baking
Bake the choux pastry:
- Pop this inside the oven (middle rack) and bake for the next 25-30 minutes (the time is just a reference, you may need longer if your choux are bigger). DO NOT open the oven door during this baking time. DO NOT open the oven door for the first 25 minutes. Once they are done, I turn off the oven and let them sit in there for about 10 minutes to let the choux dry up. Then remove from the oven, use a sharp paring knife to poke small holes on bottom to allow the steam to escape and cool on a wire rack completely
Fill them up:
- Slice the choux pastry in half horizontally and top with 1-2 Tbsp of custard cream and then top with the other half. You can also pipe the filling for some aesthetic if you choose to by poking the bottom with the piping tip and squeeze the filling in there. Sprinkle with some confectioners sugar if you going to serve it immediately. I recommend not to sprinkle with the sugar and keep them in the refrigerator as they will become "wet". You can drizzle or dip the choux pastry with melted chocolate if you choose to
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Just made these puffs! Sinfully delicious! Now I’m considering if I should all by myself 😈