Harvey House Chocolate Puffs

Name: Harvey House Chocolate Puffs
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2 , large eggs plus 1 large egg white; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 cup, water; 5 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch pieces; 2 teaspoons, granulated sugar; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 1/2 cup (2 1/2 ounces), all-purpose flour; 3 tablespoons, Dutch-processed cocoa; 8 ounces, frozen strawberries, thawed; 1 cup, heavy cream, chilled; 6 tablespoons (1 1/2 ounces), confectioners' sugar, sifted; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 ounces, cream cheese, cut into 1-inch pieces and softened; 1 cup (4 ounces), confectioners' sugar, sifted; 3 tablespoons, Dutch-processed cocoa; 2 tablespoons, water; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

With a chocolate shell and a whipped-cream and strawberry filling, how could these puffs from a famous old restaurant chain fail? Let us count the ways...

SERVES8

TIME2¼ hours, plus 1¾ hours cooling and 1 hour chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Fred Harvey started the first chain of “fast food” restaurants in the United States along the rail lines of the Southwest. The original recipe (from The Harvey House Cookbook) was baked in a shallow muffin tin and had no chocolate flavor. A...

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