Name: Cream Puffs with Vanilla Pastry Cream
Yield: Makes about 40 filled puffs
Ingredients: ½ cup whole milk; 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1" pieces; 1 tablespoon granulated sugar; ½ teaspoon kosher salt; 1 cup all-purpose flour; 6 large eggs, room temperature; 2 cups whole milk; 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into ½" pieces; ½ teaspoon kosher salt; ½ vanilla bean, split lengthwise; 5 large egg yolks; ½ cup granulated sugar; ¼ cup cornstarch; Powdered sugar (for dusting); A ½"-diameter pastry tip and a small star tip; 2 pastry bags

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Alex Lau

For this cream puffs recipe, if you don’t have any pastry bags handy, cut off the tops with a serrated knife and carefully spoon in the pastry cream.

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