Wednesday, 15 August 2007

DURIAN CREAM PUFFS (for all the durian lovers)

This is my recipe for durian cream puffs. U'll need lots of patience to make them but watch'em disappear and wait for the accolades fm yr family and frenz! Absolutely shookalicious!!

Sorry for the imperial measurements. The choux pastry recipe's been with me for over 30 yrs! (Back in those days, we didn't use metric units of measurement) If anyone really wants me to , I'll convert them to metric - just give ma a holler!


Choux Pastry

9 oz flour

1 ½ tsp baking powder

6 oz butter

6 large eggs, beaten

¾ pint water

1 tabsp sugar

½ tsp vanilla

pinch of salt

1. Heat water and butter in a saucepan on the stove. Bring to the boil.

2. Add sifted flour and baking powder at once.

3. Remove from heat. Beat with a wooden spoon to combine.

4. Mix in sugar and vanilla essence. Cool mixture.

5. Beat in eggs a little at a time with the wooden spoon. (batter will be stiff)

6. Spoon (or pipe) batter onto greased trays.

7. Bake at 200C for 25 min.

8 .Remove trays, slit puffs, scoop out uncooked dough. Return to oven to dry puffs out – 5 min.

Durian filling

500g durian meat (mash with fork)

500ml cream, whipped

icing sugar (optional)

1. Whip cream till stiff. Add 1 or 2 tabsp sifted icing sugar, if desired.

2. Whip again to dissolve sugar (do not over-whip or cream will turn into butter!)

3. Stir in durian meat

4. Fill cooled puffs with the durian cream filling. Enjoy!!

Made 84 puffs on 30 Jan 2004

Made 88 puffs on 27 Aug 2004


Original recipe for Custard puffs


Choux pastry

3 oz flour

½ tsp baking powder

2 oz butter

2 large eggs

¼ pint water

pinch salt


Custard (for original recipe)


1 ½ cups milk

4 tabsp custard powder

4-5 tabsp sugar

1 tsp vanilla


Prepare custard according to packet instructions.

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