Tropical Chili Cream Puffs

These chili-enhanced, banana-cream-filled, mango-icing-topped cream puffs are a perfect dessert for your next summer cookout or vaguely authentic luau.

Plus, there is nothing not cute about them : )

Step 1 Make Banana Chili Pastry Cream

As for the cream puff shells themselves, there are already great Instructables that include directions for those.  Since I actually used the following Instructable as reference, I will simply direct you to steps 2 - 5 for you cream puff baking needs:

http://www.instructables.com/id/halloween-bleeding-cream-puffs/

Okay, cream puffs all baked now?  Great!  On to the next steps...

This is a simple pastry cream recipe, with the addition of chilies and bananas.  The cream is infused with the peppers during the re-hydrating and heating steps.

Ingredients

• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 dried Mexican red chili (seeds removed)
• 3 - 6 dried cayenne peppers (seeds removed)
• 6 egg yolks*
• 2 bananas
• 3 Tbs flour
• 3 Tbs butter
• 1 pinch salt

Tools

• Saucepan
• Mixing bowl
• Spatula
• Whisk
• Electric mixer

Directions

1. Pour cream into saucepan and add dried chilies.  Leave until chilies are re-hydrated, at least 30 - 45 minutes
2. Heat cream on medium heat until it begins to simmer
3. Remove peppers
4. Pour slowly into egg yolks and sugar, whisking continuously
5. Pour mixture back into saucepan over medium heat
6. Whisk in flour
7. Bring up to a boil until thickening begins
8. Turn off heat and continue to whisk
9. Pour into mixing bowl
10. Add butter and bananas
11. Use an electric mixer until pastry cream is smooth - it won't be quite as smooth as plain pastry cream, but close
12. Cover with plastic wrap and chill (the pastry cream, I mean, but feel free to relax as well)

* Don't throw out the egg whites!  You can refrigerate them in a closed container for a few days.  Use egg whites to make a light omelet, or some other not-as-heavy-as-a-cream-puff food.

Comments

[maks1991]

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[oneprimalscream]

Wow, these sound really delicious and unique. I wish I would have seen this when I did my TIKI TERROR party last month! But we have one every year, so I will try these out and let you know if I use them for my next party. :)