Daring Bakers: Filled Pâté à Choux Swans

[cakecrumbs]

This month's Daring Bakers Challenge filled me with excitement the second it was posted. Kat of The Bobwhites was our August 2012 Daring Baker hostess who inspired us to have fun in creating pâté à choux shapes, filled with crème pâtissiére or Chantilly cream. We were encouraged to create swans or any shape we wanted and to go crazy with filling

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Daring Bakers Swans

[anonymous]

Your swans turned out great. And what a lucky sister you have to get to take them to her teaching assignment. They look great, and the vanilla bean cream sounds like a perfect addition! Kim at askafoodie.blogspot.com

Re: Daring Bakers Swans

[cakecrumbs]

Thank you! She was definitely chuffed when I said they were all hers haha.

[anonymous]

Beautiful swans: Black and white chocolate swans are awesome

[cakecrumbs]

Thank you. :D The chocolate coated ones were the first to go!

[joshinator]

They look amazing!

[cakecrumbs]

Thank you. :D They were lots of fun.

[cdejonge]

These look great at every step of the process. Even without the pastry wings put back on, they would have looked great. I never saw these (in person) with the jelly, but that was very inventive too.

Nice job! You got some great shapes out of the pastry.

[cakecrumbs]

Eventually! Haha. I'm only disappointed I didn't have them ready for when you were over.

[cdejonge]

They were still very impressive when I saw/had them. And I've seen the final result in the photos.

Beautiful Swans!

[anonymous]

Oh my gosh, you went all out - vanilla bean paste in the filling sounds amazing and the chocolate dipped swans look gorgeous. Really amazing work.

Re: Beautiful Swans!

[cakecrumbs]

Thank you. :D The vanilla bean paste definitely gave it an extra kick - it was hard to not eat the cream right out of the bowl!