Lemon Cream Puffs and other Easter desserts
This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy.
Today is the first of my posts for the week to get you ready for Easter. I thought it would be fun to start with dessert. You can even make these lemon cream puffs ahead of time. Then, freeze them and allow to thaw the day you want to serve them. I adapted this recipe from one I found on Soup Belly. It brings in that citrus flavor I have been loving lately.
Who doesn’t love a good cream puff? And this one is filled with a lusciously light lemon cream. It would be a perfect addition to your Easter celebration (or even a wedding or bridal shower). Light, lemony, and delicious! You could also easily substitute orange or lime zest to get and orange or lime cream puff. I think the orange filling would be excellent then drizzled with a little chocolate.
Here is a little peak into the remaining post this week for Easter – a potato dish just perfect to go with your Easter ham, a quick and easy wheat roll, an easy asparagus dish, and a citrus poppy seed cake that would work for breakfast, brunch or as a dessert. After that, I’ll even have a recipe to use up you leftover ham and hard boiled eggs.
Also, if you like variety and need a few desserts for you Easter celebration or if cream puffs aren’t your thing here are some other ideas:
- Mousse Filled Crepes
- Chocolate Mousse Filled Cream Puffs
- Eclair Torte
- Eclairs
- Perfect Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream (or just make it as a cake)
- Pineapple Zucchini Cake (use carrots in place of the zucchini)
- Marshmallow Graham Dessert
- Banana Cream Pie
- French Silk Pie
- Basic White Cupcakes with Coconut Butter Cream
- Cupcake Shortcakes
- Sugar Cookie Bars
Lemon Cream Puffs
Real Mom Kitchen
Ingredients
Ingredients for pâte à choux:
- ½ cup butter 1 stick
- 1 cup water
- ⅛ tsp. salt
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 4 eggs
Ingredients for filling:
- 1 ½ cups heavy cream
- 12 oz. of cream cheese softened
- 1 ⅛ cup powdered sugar
- 1 ½ tsp. lemon zest
- Additional powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- In saucepan, combine butter, water and salt and bring to a boil. Add flour, stirring rigorously until the mixture forms a ball. Remove from heat and cool for 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Add mixture to a mixer, and beat eggs in one at a time until smooth. If you don’t have a mixer, mix with a wooden spoon. On a cookie sheet, drop batter by teaspoons about 4 inches apart. (I used my cookie scoop to drop the batter. I got 29 puffs) Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden. DO NOT open the oven to check until 25 minutes of bake time is over; the puffs will collapse if oven is opened too early. Cool on wire rack.
- To make the filling: beat heavy cream with a mixer until whipped, and set aside in a bowl in the refrigerator. Then start blending the cream cheese with powdered sugar, adding a little sugar at a time until combined. Add 1 1/2 tsp. lemon zest. Fold in 1/3 of whipped cream by hand until well blended with cream cheese. This will help lighten the cream cheese making it easier to fold in the remaining whipped cream. Then fold in remaining whipped cream.
- Carefully cut the tops off the puffs and add a spoonful of cream cheese filling to each. Dust with powdered sugar, serve and enjoy!
