Friday, May 17, 2013

Cream Puffs=Weapon of Mass Destruction?

   I baked something truly nasty.  It all started when I was playing a cooking game on the wii, Cooking Mama.  It's a fun game and it mentions the ingredients as you play.  So I figured "Hey!  If I could just figure out the amounts, I could make all the recipes!"  I asked Helen to play a few levels and I wrote down the ingredients and instructions.  Now, we didn't have any meat or anything lying around for me to play with but we always have flour and sugar.  So I decided on cream puffs.  Something I remembered after I cooked all this was that with meat and stuff it's hard to go wrong as long as you check the temperature.  Spices are fairly easy to do whatever you want and not use a recipe.  But with baked goods, you really kind of need a recipe or at least a knowledge of the ratios.  I tried to recruit Helen but she said it was a bad idea.
   I guessed all the amounts, did all the instructions, and...


  Here's my recipe:
Boil 3c. of water with salt.  Turn it to medium.  Add 5T of butter.  Stir.  Add 1c. of sifted all-purpose flour.  Turn to high.  Then when it boils, put it on low.  Add 3 eggs.  Stir.  A lot.
   Put it in a large ziplock, snip off a corner, and pipe it into balls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  Bake til brown, about 45 mins.
   Take two eggs, 8T of milk, 1/4c. of sifted all-purpose flour, 1/2c. of sugar, and 2T of orange jello.  (I didn't have custard powder, whatever that is.  So I put in jello instead.  I chose the orange flavor because orange is good in icing on cinnamon rolls.)  And whisk them together in a pan.  Put it on the stove, and turn the burner to medium.  Stir continually.  Add 2t. of vanilla.  When it has heated up, turn it to low.  Simmer, still stirring continually.
  When the puffs come out of the oven, taste one.  The outside should have a firm skin and the inside underdone.  It should taste horrible.  The icing on the stove should be the wrong consistency and taste really weird.
THE END.

   Or is it?
Update:
The frosting has turned to a blob which actually doesn't taste bad.  The major part of the update is: apparently cream puffs are supposed to taste like that!!!
   Yes, you heard me right.  My mom tasted them and put salt and pepper on it and said it wasn't bad.  She thought is was just an eggy tasting thing.  When my dad tasted it, he said it tasted like an eclair.  It's supposed to have cream inside and if it's a boston creme, a little bit of chocolate frosting on top.  Maybe I'll whip that stuff up.  And maybe...I'll try it again.  Maybe...

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