These gluten free cream puffs are made with a simple cooked pastry dough called choux pastry. With only five simple pantry ingredients, you're only moments away from a simple but impressive treat!
This is a super short post, but there's a whole lot more about choux pastry and how to make it and work with it in this gougères recipe. Gougères are really just cream puffs made with added cheese. There's even a how-to video for them which I've included here too on this page.
Are you reading this on the eve of a holiday that's leaving you wanting to impress, but without a lot of fuss? These gluten free cream puffs are just the thing.
Like chocolate éclairs, cream puffs are made with a simple French choux pastry. But don't be put off by the funny name. Choux pastry is a super simple dough that's cooked briefly on the stovetop, then piped into mounds (or éclair shapes) and baked in a hot oven.
The eggs in the pastry dough make the dough puff up like a soufflé and hold their shape. For cream puffs, just slice them in half, fill with cream and drizzle with melted chocolate.
The recipe is straight out of my bread cookbook, Gluten Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread. The pastry itself has only 5 ingredients (including salt!), and you almost certainly have all of them in your pantry right now.
Make them for Easter, New Year's, or, well, today. Whatever that day is. I think it was Toni Morrison who said that you should make cream puffs for someone you love, because they at least look like you spent all day in the kitchen. I won't tell if you won't.