Cream Puff Swans
1 cup water 1/2 cup butter 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 eggs 1 can Mandarin orange slices -- well-drained 1 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons powdered sugar -- sifted
Ingredients
- 1cupwater
- 1/2cupbutter
- 1cupall-purpose flour
- 1/4teaspoonsalt
- 4eggs
- 1canmandarin orange slices -- well-drained
- 1cupheavy cream
- 2tablespoons powdered sugar -- sifted
Directions
- 1
1 cup water 1/2 cup butter 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 eggs 1 can Mandarin orange slices -- well-drained 1 cup heavy cream 2
- 2
Sift flour with salt and add to butter mixture
- 3
Heat, stirring, until mixture forms a ball
- 4
Remove from heat and add eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition
- 5
Put 1/3 of dough into a pastry bag and pipe through largest hole onto greased baking sheet, forming six S-shaped pastries, each about 3 inch
- 6
These will form necks and heads of swans
- 7
Scrape any dough remaining in pastry bag into rest of dough
- 8
On a separate, greased baking sheet, form remaining dough into six ovals, drawing dough to a point at one end and rounding other end of oval