Cream puff with curd and plum jam filling

AUTHOR
Pat Ware
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 1/2 TEASPOON Salt
  • 100 g Butter or margarine
  • 150 g Flour
  • 3-4 Eggs (size M)
  • 4 sheets white gelatine
  • 250 g Edible quark (20 % fat)
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 75 g Sugar
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Slibovitz (plum brandy)
  • 200 g Whipped cream
  • 150 g Plum jam
  • 100 g Icing sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Cinnamon
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    For the dough, boil 1/4 litre of water, salt and fat in a pot. Add the flour and stir over medium heat until the dough comes off the bottom of the pot as a lump. Stir in 1 egg, let the dough cool down a little and gradually stir in the remaining eggs until a shiny dough is formed.

  2. 2

    Pour the dough into a piping bag with a large star-shaped spout. From half of the dough, squirt 8 spots onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ gas: level 3)) for about 15 minutes.

  3. 3

    Cut open the cream puffs immediately and let them cool down. Bake 8 more cream puffs from the remaining dough. Soak the gelatine for the filling. Mix quark, vanillin sugar, sugar and slibovitz. Squeeze the gelatine, dissolve and stir into the quark.

  4. 4

    Whip cream until stiff and fold in. Spread the plum puree on the cream puffs. Pour the quark cream into a piping bag with a star-shaped spout and squirt onto the plum jam. Mix icing sugar, cinnamon and 2-3 tablespoons of water to a glaze.

  5. 5

    Spread the tops of the cream puffs with it, place on the quark and leave to dry.

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