This recipe starts with a cream puff base. First water and butter are boiled in a saucepan, then flour is stirred until a dough ball forms. Next eggs are stirred into the dough. The dough is spread into a baking pan and baked until puffed. Then cream cheese is beaten with sugar and strawberry jam before adding milk, vanilla pudding mix and whipped cream. Next the mixture is spread on top of the cooled base and refrigerated. Sliced strawberries are placed on top before serving.
Course
Dessert
Prep Time30minutes
Cook Time20minutes
Refrigerating Time1hour
Servings12people
Ingredients
1cupwater
½cupbuttercubed
1cupAP flour
4large eggsroom temperature
1package(8 oz) cream cheese, softened
½cupsugar
5tbspseedless strawberry jam
3cupscold whole milk
1package(5.1 oz) instant vanilla pudding mix
½cupheavy whipping cream
3cupsquartered fresh strawberries
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 F. In a large saucepan, bring water and butter to a rolling boil. Add flour all at once and beat until blended. Cook over medium heat, stirring vigorously until mixture pulls away from sides of pan and forms a ball. Remove from heat; let stand 5 minutes.
Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue beating until mixture is smooth and shiny.
Spread into a greased 15x10x1 inch baking pan. Bake 20-25 minutes or until puffed and golden brown (surface will be uneven). Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and jam until smooth. Beat in milk and pudding milk until smooth.
In a small bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form; fold in pudding mixture. Spread over crust. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.