Craquelin Cream Puffs with Vanilla Bean Pastry Cream

[a_boleyn]

The basic cream puff may be dressed up in many ways.

In this post, I used Chef John's recipe for 'crack' cream puffs in which a crunchy sugar cookie type topping is placed on a larger than usual cream puff before baking.  I also made the vanilla bean pastry cream to fill the puffs but skipped the chocolate base for the puffs because, unlike my

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[spiffikins]

I think that the puffs with the ice cream would be FAB!

[a_boleyn]

It's a fast and easy filling, at least. :)

I've also done sweetened whipped cream.