TWD: Peppermint Cream Puff Ring

I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get this recipe done this week.  We had the CEO and CFO of the entire company at our office one day last week, my supervisor was gone, the engineer who is normally second in charge was out, and it was just plain crazy.  I was also told by my father that he wanted a rum cake for Father's Day.  I used Dorie's Vanilla Rum cake and it was delicious but it wasn't the rum soaked sugar concoction of his youth.  Now I just need to find that recipe for next time.

I found a spare moment late Thursday night and was able to make up a small batch of the dough.  I got two individual cream puffs out it and both baked up nicely.  Very puffy!  However, when I turned the oven off both fell completely.  Having never made a cream puff before, I wasn't sure if this was normal or not.  But since time was short I just went with them and whipped up some whipped cream with some peppermint extract added.  I decided against making the cream in the recipe since time was an issue.  The whipped cream was delicious though!

You're probably wondering by now why there are no pictures to document my make shift Cream Puff Ring.  Well...I had them.  Nice ones too.  But I took my camera to my parents' over the weekend where my middle sister reminded me that I was selling my camera to her.  Not thinking anything of it, I gave her the camera.  Ummm....I kind of forgot to take the pictures off of the camera first.  Sigh...  I ordered a new camera but thanks to Amazon's super slow super saver shipping, it won't be here until later this week at the earliest.  I took a picture of it with my iPhone but I couldn't get a good picture out of it.  Hopefully at some point I will be able to make this again and have good pictures!

I had frozen my second cream puff, so I took it out and put some whipped cream in the middle but it was just so...blah compared to my gorgeous peppermint whipped cream puff drizzled in chocolate.  Next time people...next time.

Hopefully my camera will be here in time for next weeks Tuesdays with Dorie recipe.  Beth of Our Sweet Life has chosen the Mixed Berry Cobbler.  woo hoo!  I love cobbler and this one looks delicious!  Can't wait to make it (though I will try and wait for the camera)!

For this weeks recipe, check out our host, Caroline of A Consuming Passion.  See what the other Tuesdays with Dorie bakers have come up with here!

Here is my not so fabulous picture of my second cream puff ring.