Cream Puffs

Servings:

Cooking Time:

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• ¼ tsp salt
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ cup margarine
• 3 cup skim milk
• 1/8 tsp salt
• nonstick spray coating
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3 tbsp cornstarch

Instructions:

• Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray coating. Bring water, margarine, and the ¼ teaspoon salt to boiling.
• Add flour all at once, stirring vigorously. Cook and stir until mixture forms a ball that doesn't separate. Cool 10 minutes.
• Add the 4 eggs, one at a time, beating until smooth after each addition. Drop batter by heaping teaspoons, 3 inches apart onto baking sheet, making 12 mounds.
• Bake in a 400 degree oven for 30 minutes or till golden brown and puffy. Cool.
• Split cream puffs and remove any soft dough from inside.
• Meanwhile, for pudding, in a saucepan combine sugar, cornstarch and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Stir in milk.
• Cook and stir till bubbly. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Remove from heat.
• Gradually stir 1 cup of the hot mixture into the beaten egg. Return all to saucepan.
• Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and food coloring, if desired. Pour into bowl.
• Cover surface with clear plastic wrap. Chill.
• To serve, fill cream puffs with pudding and strawberries.