I made a batch of cream puffs and eclairs for the gang at Green Mesquite today. My recipe for the pastries outpaced the recipe for the pastry cream. You should see how much ganache I have left. I need to work on my respective recipe quantities. Knowing that I was going to be short of filling, I selected the pastries with the best shape. The result was that about 12 pastries were not filled. My original thought was to toss them and call it a day. Then I remembered all of the things that I had tried out for and was not selected. sniff. The pastries looked so forlorn sitting on the cooling rack without any filling or ganache coating. It wasn't their fault that they came out of the oven a little goofy.
It looks like I'll be making some pastry cream tonight.
