Sweet or Savory Pate a Choux

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As a beginner without the right tools, this recipe was a little difficult but the result was fabulous nonetheless! I make these often and it gets easier with practice.

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This receipe was fantastic and easier then I thought it would be! I made mini eclairs and even though my piping skills were less then great, they still came out beautiful. I dipped the tops in milk chocolate (made it taste a little like a candy bar, and I made my own vanilla pastry cream to fill the insides. Tsk-tsk Alton, for using instant vanilla pudding!

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Worked pretty well and was a hit at my New Year's party. I used a ziploc bag with one of the corners cut off to pipe onto the tray. Fast and easy. I also filled with a vanilla pastry cream. Didn't need a chocolate glaze.

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For those who didn't find it, its 1 cup chocolate chips, with 1 tsp veggie oil for the topping, and use 3/4 of the liquid for the pudding filling

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I just have to hone my vanilla cream making abilities and I'd have me some fine cream puffs.

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I had great success making these. The dough was easy to make though I used a fruit preserve filling. My pastries came out perfect (Well as perfect as possible for my piping skills. I couldn't believe it. Great recipe.

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This recipe was not to difficult to make, although getting the batter the the right consistancy was a bit of a challenge. The end result was great, and well worth the effort.

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It was very good and easy to make. and looks that that hole family can get involed and make it....

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Add the eggs slowly, as to make sure your dough doesn't get to runny, I had to make a second batch because my first was more like pancake batter or worse even.. The dough has a tendency to start flowing right out of the pastry bag so I recommend giving the tip a twist and paper clipping it before you start filling the bag. It wouldn't hurt to put the bag down into some kind of tupperware with walls and turn the opening of the bag over the walls . Alton's method of holding the inside out bag apparently is a skill that takes practice. I got away with not turning the oven down, just watched until they were a bit toasted on top and the very quickly poking a hole after they came out. I baked for about 20 minutes

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This came together as advertised. After reading other reviews, it seems that folks get into trouble in two ways. One, adding too many eggs, and two, not baking long enough. With those constantly in the back of my mind, I was able to bring the whole thing together fairly easily on the first try.

I did not have any sort of pasty bag, so I just dropped them onto parchment with a spoon. They actually came out a lot better than one would imagine -- kind of look like puffer fish.

They did need to be baked for about 25 minutes total. It's probably better to err on the side of too long rather than too short.