Cream Puffs with a message

A colleague of mine from the restaurant ordered these from me to surprise her boyfriend. Yay my first order!

“I <3 U, HAZIQ”

How sweet of her!

She actually saw the ones I made for Ronna’s birthday previously and wanted these to just give her boyfriend a little something.

It was a fun project, and the extras I made were gone within the hour I made them.

I used milk chocolate instead of the usual dark to top the cream puffs cos it was all I had, but sis and bro seemed to think that milk chocolate worked better, so that was a lucky thing. And they were filled with stabilised vanilla whipped cream – a bigger crowd favourite than pastry cream, which some people don’t seem to like as much. Whipped cream also made the cream puffs lighter in taste, so the my colleague and her boyfriend could finish the box on their own.

The heart was outlined in chocolate, then flooded with a royal icing that I coloured red. The red heart was a special request from my colleague. I personally think that royal icing doesn’t match with cream puffs that well, but I was stumped and that was the only idea I could come up with as yet. Perhaps white chocolate with red food colouring instead? But I don’t know if the chocolate will seize up or not. Hmm.