24
Appetizer Cream Puffs
with Creamy Feta Olive Filling
Cream Puffs
1 cup water
1
⁄
2
cup butter or
margarine
1
⁄
4
teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 eggs
Filling
1 package (8 oz.) light
cream cheese
4 oz. crumbled
tomato-basil feta
cheese
1
⁄
2
cup light sour cream
1
⁄
3
cup finely chopped
kalamata or ripe
olives
1
⁄
2
teaspoon lemon
pepper seasoning
To make
Cream Puffs
, heat water, butter, and salt
in a medium saucepan over high heat to a full
rolling boil. Reduce heat and quickly stir in flour,
mixing vigorously until mixture leaves sides of pan
in a ball.
Place flour mixture in mixer bowl. Attach bowl and
flat beater. Turn to Speed 2 and add eggs, one at a
time, beating about 30 seconds after each addition.
Stop and scrape bowl. Turn to Speed 4 and beat
about 15 seconds.
Drop dough onto greased baking sheets forming
36 mounds, 2 inches apart. Bake at 400ºF for
10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350ºF and bake
25 minutes longer. Turn off oven. Remove pans
from oven. Cut a small slit in side of each puff.
Return pans to oven (turned off) for 10 minutes,
leaving oven door ajar. Cool completely on rack.
To make
Filling
, combine all ingredients in mixer
bowl. Attach bowl and flat beater. Turn to Speed 2
and mix about 30 seconds, or until blended. Pipe or
spoon about 1 tablespoon filling into each cream
puff.
Yield: 36 servings (1 filled cream puff per serving).
Per serving: About 72 cal, 2 g pro, 4 g carb, 5 g fat,
37 mg chol, 132 mg sod.
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