I chanced upon these cute Totoro Cream Puffs by Fatmum and finally made some yesterday for our afternoon tea. The concept came from Anna's blog with step-by-step pics to guide you on how to make Totoro cream puffs.
To save time, I piped the eyes onto the choux pastry but it was a mistake. As the pastry was not flat, the icing slided backwards and the shape got distorted. My children ain't bothered with the flaws and gorged them down within seconds ^-^
Instead of following the cream puff recipe, I used back my trusted recipe here which was originally from Florence's blog.
Totoro Cream Puffs
Choux Pastry
Ingredients (8 puffs)
85ml water
50g butter
pinch of salt
1/4 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla essence (I omit)
50g bread flour
20g cake flour
2 eggs (lightly beaten)
Method
- Cook water, butter, sugar and salt in a saucepan till bubbling hot. Turn the heat to low.
- Add in the flour mixture in one go and mix with a wooden spoon till a dough is formed.
- Still on low heat, cook the dough for 1 - 2 minutes till a thin white film is formed at the bottom of the saucepan.
- Transfer dough to a mixing bowl and beat till it is lukewarm.
- Add in egg by thirds and mix till well blended and smooth.
- Place batter into piping bag and pipe it onto a lined pan in rounds of about 5cm in diameter. Spray some water on it.
- Bake at 200C for 25 minutes then 180C for 8 - 10 minutes or till dry and golden brown in color. Turn off the oven and let it cool in the oven for 30 minutes.
Ingredients
240ml skim milk
4 tbsp castor sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg + 2 yolks
2 tbsp cornstarch
Method
- Mix 60ml of milk with the cornstarch till smooth.
- Add the beaten egg and yolks into the cornstarch mixture.
- Boil the remaining milk with sugar in a saucepan till bubbling hot. Pour 1/3 of this hot milk into the egg cornstarch mixture. Stirring all the time.
- Now pour the egg cornstarch mixture through a strainer into the rest of the boiling milk. Stirring constantly till mixture thicken. Do not burn the custard.
- Cling wrap custard with glad wrap with the wrap touching the surface of the custard (this is to prevent a hard film forming on surface of the custard) and chill till ready to use.
5 comments:
We love cream puffs , these are so nice !
SOOO cute!! I wouldn't bear eating down those Totoros!! I watched the show a lot when I was younger. =)
Pei-Lin
Pearlyn,
You should try making some :)
Pei-Lin,
I've never seen/heard of Totoro, googled to view the pics and realised how un-Totoro I've created :P
Yout totoro cream puffs are so cute, I love tonari no totoro. It's my fav japanese anime movie :)
Miss B
Miss B, thanks for dropping by. You've got a great blog!
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