Ingredients:
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
4 eggs
In a saucepan, melt the butter in the water. I put it on high and watch to make sure it doesn't boil over. As soon as the butter is melted, take it off the heat. Stir in 1 cup of flour until it's sticking together and looks like a uniform ball of dough. Add all four eggs and stir. Keep stirring. What happens here is that the eggs and dough take a while to stick together, but you'll know when you're done by the blended and sticky consistency. Seriously, just keep stirring.
Here I spoon the sticky mixture in one of those zipper sandwich baggies. I cut a corner off the bottom of the bag and start squeezing out the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. I squeeze it into about 1.5 inch masses/shells/puffs. I can usually fit about 16 - 20 on a cookie sheet. With these quantities, you'll probably fill up two cookie sheets-worth.
Put the filled cookie sheets in the oven. Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 - 25 minutes. You'll want them to be golden or a little brown. When you take them out of the oven, I find that it is best to put them on a cooling rack right away. If you let them cool, then they start to stick to the cookie sheet.
Cream:
1 small package Cheesecake-flavored Jello pudding
1 small package White Chocolate-flavored Jello pudding
2 cups milk
1 cup whipping cream
Add both of the pudding mixes to milk and blend for 2 minutes on medium speed. Add whipping cream and blend for another 2 minutes on medium.
Cut the top off of a puff and make sure the puff is hollow. Sometimes you have to pull out the middle and eat it. :) Spoon cream filling inside the puff and place the top back on. Be generous with the cream filling. This recipes makes a lot. Repeat for all puffs.
I've found that if I'm doing a regular chocolate filling that it's best to do one small package of chocolate and one small package of white chocolate.
Some people like to melt some chocolate and brush it on the top of the puffs. Some people like to make big eclairs/puffs (those cook for about 30 - 35 min). The world is your cream puff; do what you want.
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