TWD: Cream Puff Rings

This week Caroline of A Consuming Passion chose Dorie's Peppermint Cream Puff Ring. I was excited to try my hand at this type of pastry and to make pastry cream. I ended up making a regular pastry cream versus the peppermint cream because (a) I didn't have mint leaves, and (b) we like peppermint, but only in small doses and I wasn't too sure how strong the peppermint taste would be. I was also afraid that if it tasted too much like peppermint we wouldn't eat the whole thing and it would go to waste. Well, it went to waste either way. Dorie is not lying when she says this dessert must be eaten within 8 hours of it being made. I even halved the recipe and it was still too much for us. While the dessert itself is good, I was bummed that it didn't last long (cream started getting hard). The cream was great and easy to pipe and the dough was amazing. Once the dough was baked it was so light and airy. Together (and topped with chocolate) it was delicious!

As always, make sure to check out the TWD website so you can see how everyone else interpreted this dessert.

Dough and sea-looking-creature cream

Finished cream ring


A mini-me cream ring :)