Cream Puff/ Eclair Pastry

Ingredients:
1 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
4 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour

Recipe:

In a saucepan melt water, butter, and salt. Take off heat and stir in flour until it forms a ball. Then mix in eggs one at a time until well incorporated.

On a greased cookie sheet spread out pastry for eclairs or spoon the mixture into clumps to make cream puffs.

Bake 45-50 minutes at 400 degrees F. (Or until golden brown, the puffs only took about 25 minutes)

Eclair filling:
2 pkg vanilla pudding
12 oz cool whip
1 tsp vanilla

Eclair chocolate topping:
melting chocolate ( 1 oz cocoa or 2 blocks hard chocolate)
3 tbsp butter
3 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup powdered sugar

Cream puff whipped cream:
1 cup heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp powdered sugar

This pastry is actually very easy to make and it always comes out light and fluffy.  I used this recipe to make cream puffs. Even the cream is easy to whip up. Especially is you have a whipped cream dispenser, and it's fun to use. I got mine from Goodwill. You do have to buy nitrous oxide cartridges for it, though.