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Directions:Preparation:
Put water and butter in a sauce pan. Bring water to boiling, stir until butter is melted. Remove from heat. Stir in flour until a ball forms. Add eggs, one at a time, and whip until shiny and smooth.
Spread dough out on a cookie sheet. Bake at 400º for about 25 minutes, or until golden brown and puffy. Remove from oven, cool.
Filling:
Beat cream cheese with milk in a mixer, add in the instant pudding. Beat until it's all mixed. Chill for about 30 minutes.
Topping:
Place whipping cream into a mixing bowl, beat on high until soft peaks start to form. Add in powdered sugar. Continue beating until stiff peaks form.
Assembly:
Spread filling mixture across the top of the cream puff pastry. Top with whipped cream.
Melt the dark chocolate chips in the microwave with the butter, checking every 15 seconds or so, until it is melted and pourable.
With a spoon, drizzle the melted chocolate across the top of the whipped cream.
Melt the white chocolate chips with the shortening (hint: do not use butter, or else the white chips will seize and not be usable). Add a little more shortening if necessary to get to a pourable consistency. With a spoon, drizzle the melted white chocolate across the top.
Let the entire cake chill until time to serve. Use a pizza cutter to cut into squares. |
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Notes: This is a great dessert to make with kids. One time, we had a young girl spending the weekend with us, who didn't like to eat dinner. Our family rule was that you had to eat your dinner to get dessert. Together our guest and I made the Cream Puff Cake. When dinner came, she was faced with a choice: Eat all her dinner and get dessert or leave much of dinner on her plate and skip Cream Puff Cake. It took a while, but all ended happily. She ate her dinner and loved her dessert!
It's one of our family favorites!
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