King Cake Cream Puffs
 
 
:
: 26 puffs
Ingredients
For Puff:
  • ? cup butter (1 stick)
  • 1 cup water
  • ? tsp. salt
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 4 eggs
For filling:
  • 1? cups heavy cream
  • 12 oz. of cream cheese, softened
  • 1? cup powdered sugar
For Topping:
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 4-5 tsp water
Instructions
To Make Puffs:
  1. Preheat over to 400 degrees F
  2. In saucepan, combine butter, water and salt and bring to a boil. Add flour, stirring rigorously until the mixture forms a ball. Remove from heat and cool for 10 minutes.
  3. Add mixture to a mixer, and beat eggs in one at a time until smooth. If you don?t have a mixer, mix with a wooden spoon.
  4. On a cookie sheet, drop batter by teaspoons about 4 inches apart. (I used my cookie scoop to drop the batter. I got 26 puffs)
  5. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden. DO NOT open the oven to check until 25 minutes of bake time is over; the puffs will collapse if oven is opened too early. Cool on wire rack.
To make the filling:
  1. Beat heavy cream with a mixer until whipped, and set aside in a bowl in the refrigerator.
  2. Then start blending the cream cheese with powdered sugar, adding a little sugar at a time until combined.
  3. Fold in ? of whipped cream by hand until well blended with cream cheese. This will help lighten the cream cheese making it easier to fold in the remaining whipped cream. Then fold in remaining whipped cream.
  4. Fill puffs with cream. I used a bag and tip for icing to fill them and they just have a small hole in the side. You can also cut them in half and fill them that way.
To Make Topping:
  1. Mix 1 cup of powdered sugar and 4-5 tsp of water or as much water it takes to get to the consistency you want. I make my topping a little runny so that it would just run off the side of the puffs. I then added purple, green, and yellow sprinkles to the top!
Notes
Based on Real Mom Kitchen's Lime Cream Puff Recipe http://www.yummly.com/recipe/external/Lime-cream-puffs-351113
Recipe by Cocktails With Mom at https://cocktailswithmom.com/king-cake-cream-puffs/