Chicken Cream Puffs
If you don't have time to make and bake homemade puff dough, you can always use store-bought pastry cups.
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 eggs
- chicken salad
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease a cookie sheet.
Melt butter in boiling water. Add flour and salt all at once; stir vigorously. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture forms a ball that doesn't separate. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating vigorously after each until smooth. Drop dough by heaping teaspoonful 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheet.
Bake in a very hot oven for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove puffs from oven; split. Turn oven off and put cream puffs back in oven to dry out, about 20 minutes. Cool on rack. Fill with your favorite chicken salad or deli-made chicken salad just before serving. Makes 24 puffs. Enjoy!