Diabetic Mini Cream Puffs Recipes

Steps:

• Prepare the pudding with the milk; cover and chill.
• While the pudding chills, whip the cream with a few drops of vanilla extract. Fold into the pudding.
• Place back into the refrigerator if not using immediately.
• VARIATIONS:.
• Pineapple cream: fold in 1/2 cup drained crushed pineapple.
• Butterscotch cream: sub butterscotch pudding for the vanilla.
• Lemon creme: sub lemon pudding for the vanilla.
• Chocolate cream: sub chocolate pudding for the vanilla.
• White Chocolate: sub in white chocolate pudding for vanilla.
• Cheesecake: sub in cheesecake pudding for vanilla.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a small saucepan, bring water and butter to a rolling boil over medium heat. Add flour and salt all at once; beat until blended. Cook, stirring vigorously, until a film forms at the bottom of the pan, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat; let stand 10 minutes., Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until smooth. Continue beating until mixture is smooth and shiny. Drop dough by 1-in. balls 1-1/2 in. apart onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake until puffed, very firm and golden brown, 25-30 minutes. Cool on wire racks., Meanwhile, whisk together pudding mix and milk for 2 minutes or until thickened; let stand 5 minutes. Fold in whipped topping. Cut puffs in half. Fill cream puffs with vanilla filling; replace tops. Dust with confectioners' sugar; serve immediately.

Steps:

• 1. 1.Prheat oven to 400F. Spray a cookie sheet with Pam. 2.Bring water and salt to full boil. Stir margarine until melted. 3. Add flour, all at once. Stir until mixture forms a ball. Remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes.
• 2. 5.Add eggs one at a time, stirring thoroughly after each addition until smooth and shiny. 6.Drop dough by teaspoons into baking sheet, forming 24 mounds. Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown. 7.Turn oven off and prick puff on sides with toothpick.
• 3. 8.Return to oven and let stand 10 minutes. Cool completey. 9. With sharp knife, carefully remove the tops of the puffs. 10.Filling: Fold Cool Whip into prepared pudding. Fill each puff and replace top.
• 4. 11. 3 Puffs per serving 12.Each serving supplies 1/2 fat exchange(margarine),1/4 protein exchange (egg), 1/2 bread exchange (flour), 1/8 milk exchange(pudding) and 5 optional calories.

Steps:

• 1. Put water and butter in a heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil until butter melts. Add salt.
• 2. Remove from heat and add flour and stir until smooth and return to heat and continue stirring until mixture forms a smooth mass, and the bottom on the pan is coated with a fine film. (this indicates that the flour is cooked)
• 3. Remove from heat and place mixture in the bowl of a food processor using the plastic dough blade. Add eggs one at a time, pulsing the batter until very smooth. (I started doing it this way when my shoulders would hurt so much from fibromyalgia that I couldn't beat the eggs in by hand any longer, now I wouldn't do it any other way)
• 4. Once the eggs have been incorporated into the dough it may be covered and left at room temperature for an hour or so.
• 5. Preheat oven to 425-degrees. Pipe dough with a pastry bag with 1/2 inch round tip onto parchment covered baking sheets, forming mounds 1 inch in diameter and 3/4 inch high. Lightly smooth the tops of each mound.
• 6. Bake for 10 minutes, Reduce heat to 375-degrees and continue baking until the puffs are golden brown about 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 325-degrees and bake until puffs are firm and the inside is not sticky or doughy.
• 7. Cool puffs on a wire rack. They may be used immediately or frozen in airtight container. To use, warm in a preheated oven for a few minutes.
• 8. SHRIMP AND CRAB FILLING: Toss together bread cubes, onions, melted butter and eggs. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• 9. Next day add celery, shrimp, crab and mayonnaise. Taste for seasoning. May need salt and pepper and a little lemon juice.
• 10. Use for filling mini cream puffs, canape`s or to make a sandwich with the filling. It is good enough to eat by itself. Bread extends the filling without compromising on flavor and taste.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Place a mixing bowl in the freezer.
• Combine water, butter, and salt in a saucepan; bring to a boil.
• Remove from the heat and immediately add flour; quickly beat in the flour with a wooden spoon, alternating between pressing on the dough and beating it quickly. Continue until dough has formed a ball and no longer sticks to the side of the pan.
• Add 1 egg, and using the same technique above, beat it in until dough has reached a smooth consistency. Repeat with the second egg. Beat until dough begins to break into strands, about 5 more minutes.
• Divide dough into 12 pieces. Round each piece and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until puffed up and browned, about 20 minutes. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
• Meanwhile, pour cold cream into the chilled mixing bowl. Add white sugar and beat with a hand mixer until light and fluffy.
• Slice across the tops of the cooled cream puffs just enough to open; they will be hollow inside. Put a heaping tablespoon whipped cream in the top and bottom cavities. Put a strawberry in the middle and close the two halves. Set on a plate and dust with powdered sugar.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring to boil, water, butter, vanilla and salt, over medium high heat.
• Dump rice flour in all at once and stir until mixture is smooth and forms a ball.
• Remove from heat, cool 5 minutes.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating in between each addition.
• Beat until batter is smooth.
• Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes until golden brown and crisp.
• Cool on rack.
• When completely cooled, bag airtight and freeze, or, cut each puff in half fill with whipped cream, replace top, or partially fill with any kind of fruit sauce, top with whipped cream, replace top, drizzle fruit sauce over, and top again with whipped cream.