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[bunsen_h]

A weird dream this morning ended with my discovering that an unbroken puff pastry contained small custard-filled puff pastries, sort of like the miniature cream puffs that one can buy.

This leads me to wonder if it might actually be feasible?  Freeze the little custard-filled things solid, put them inside puff pastry dough, bake quickly?  As with Baked Alaska and deep-fried ice cream, rely on the freezing of the centre to keep it from change while the outside is cooked?

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[metalana.livejournal.com]

Ah. So you would be hoping the outer pastry would puff up and leave a big void. What if the inner frozen pastry stuck to the outer dough, preventing it from puffing up? Maybe you could coat the inner pastries in butter...

I'm also thinking about chinese sesame balls, which tend to have a void.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Yes, I think one would want to coat the inner pastries in something to prevent sticking -- butter would be a good thing to try.