Posted on 01/02/2024 7:46:36 AM PST by Red Badger
NATIONAL CREAM PUFF DAY | January 2
National Cream Puff Day on January 2 is for dessert and pastry lovers alike to celebrate this delicious French creation all day long.
#NationalCreamPuffDay
Originating in France, cream puffs are also known as profiterole and choux a la creme. Cream puffs are a French dessert pastry filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, ice cream or custard. They may be served plain or can be decorated with chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, or dusted with powdered sugar.
Borrowed from the French, the word “profiterole” has existed in English since 1604. The “cream puff” has been found on United States restaurant menus since around 1851.
To prepare cream puffs, a pastry chef pipes a choux paste through a pastry bag or dropped with a pair of spoons into small balls onto a pan, then baked to form hollow puffs. After cooling, the cream puffs are injected with a filling using a pastry bag and narrow piping tip or by slicing off the top, filling the puff, and then reassembling.
SHARING CREAM PUFF DREAMS
Depending on your resolution status, you may do the following:
Visiting the bakery and buy cream puffs. Then, eat them.
Make cream puffs using the recipe below. Eat them.
Stare longingly at said cream puffs in bakery case or recipe. Buy some and eat them anyway.
Cream puffs? No idea, the tray was empty when I got here.
You may also try the divide and conquer approach. Share those cream puffs with co-workers and friends. Use #NationalCreamPuffDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL CREAM PUFF DAY HISTORY
While National Day Calendar continues researching the origins of this tasty holiday, we're going to keep on snacking. Resolutions? What resolutions?
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January 2nd Celebrated History
1839
Louis Daguerre captures the first photo of the Moon
1890
President William Henry Harrison appoints the first woman to the role of presidential secretary. Alice Sanger's impeccable qualifications as a skilled stenographer and typist gained her an introduction to Harrison two years prior.
1959
The Soviet Union launches Luna 1, the first spacecraft to escape the Earth's gravitational pull. Intended to impact the Moon, the unmanned rocket overshot the Moon and entered orbit around the Sun.
1991
The first African American woman elected mayor of a major city and the first Mayor of the District of Columbia is sworn into office. Sharon Pratt Kelly ran for the office on the Democratic ticket against Maurice T. Turner, Jr.
January 2nd Celebrated Birthdays
Oscar Micheaux - 1884
In 1919, Micheaux became the first African American filmmaker. During his career, he produced more than 44 films including The Homesteader, Within Our Gates, and The Betrayal.
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander - 1898
A woman of many degrees, Mossell Alexander was also a woman of many firsts. Some of her achievements include becoming the first African American in the United States to earn a PhD. in economics, the first African American woman to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and the first woman to serve as secretary of the National Bar Association.
Isaac Asimov - 1920
The prolific science fiction writer is best known for his Foundation series. Asimov's works have been developed into films such as I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man.
Jack Hanna - 1947
The zoologist is known for hosting several wildlife-themed television shows including Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures and Jack Hanna's Wild Countdown. His expertise transformed the Columbus Zoo in Ohio in the 1980s into a zoological park.
Cream Puff Ping!........................
Friend of mine would fold pastry cream into the whipped cream before filling the puffs.
Or just make a pkg of cooked vanilla pudding and chill it well before folding in. Sinfully delicious.
Love them as long as they are very fresh - ditto for Cannolis. The pastry part gets stale very quickly, they don’t last long at all.
... they don’t last long at all.....
Not around me they don’t!...............
I remember making these in HomeEc
There is something about a Cream Puff that is very addictive. Betcha can’t eat just one!..................
I wonder what they teach in HomeEc nowadays?.......
Scratch that. I don’t wanna know....................
I’d lose that bet.
Me too!...................
I’ve got a car for sale that’s a cream puff...only 373,000 miles!
That may be a reality soon!...................
***Cannolis***
Don’t get me started, Bon! Love those things!
Husband was Italian - grandparents from Italy, etc., LOVED cannolis but rarely ate them b/c the ones that came from a bakery were mostly stale (according to him).
He said they needed to come out of the oven, cool a bit, loaded up with filling - and then eaten immediately.
He also only ate pizza that came out of a 1500 degree coal-fired brick oven (I wasn’t fond of them b/c they tore my mouth apart).
My mother-in-law made cannoli filling with ricotta cheese that was heavenly...
No recipes and she took how to make it - along with all of her other recipes - with her to her grave.
My kids went to HS with some kids whose Italian grandparents were immigrants. There was a huge contingent of Italian families, and many of them were related to one another. Our kids befriended a few of these kids and their families, and at Christmas, one of the moms would send her fresh cannolis as a treat. Man, those were gone in seconds once they were brought into the house. They barely made it on to the kitchen counter! Ain’t nothing in the world like them!
Your husband was probably right about the ones in the stores being mostly stale. There’s only one place I buy them from now, but I live 4 hours away, so it’s really a treat when we get over that way. I still haven’t found replacements for the old Italian bakery that we got them from here in the Indy area. They probably are there; I just haven’t found them yet.
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