Cream puffs 2

Katsudon for lunch

There's a patisserie nearby that we've been wanting to try for a while now and today we got two of their cream puffs. This one is garnished with almond and sugar, which was a nice addition to the crust.

And this one with sesame seeds. I preferred the almond one, because the toasted sesame seeds were too strong and it kind of took over the delicate flavour of the pastry cream.

The pastry cream inside was (too) thick; it was almost like pudding... and not all lovely and smooth like the cream puff I had the other day. Almost kind... chunky, if that makes sense (and if that doesn't sound appetizing, I apologize) It was pretty yummy though, not too sweet, so it worked well with the choux pastry and sugar. Also, this didn't have much of a vanilla flavour (this cream did have vanilla seeds, but not much)

And this was a cream puff from the drugstore... It was 37 yen. This cream puff didn't disappoint... because well, for 37 yen you can't really expect much.

Yep... I expected it to be pretty much empty.

I didn't expect all the vanilla seeds though! Wow. The pastry to cream ratio wasn't good, but the overall quality was pretty good considering the price.

Now I'm keen to try even more profiteroles...