These fun Candy Corn Cream Puffs start with a bright yellow cream puff shell which is filled with an orange cream cheese filling, iced with a bright white icing, and finished with a candy corn on top.
Today I’m sharing a fun Halloween cream puff recipe. I created these Candy Corn Cream Puffs for my new e-book, Simply Sweet Dream Puffs. There wasn’t room in the cookbook for this recipe and it got cut in the final draft. It’s such a fun cream puff, I’m excited to finally be able to share it with you.
To color the cream puff shells, just add ¼ teaspoon of yellow soft gel paste food color to the cream puff shell recipe after beating in the eggs. The colored pate a choux recipe is my my cookbook.
White icing color turns the icing bright white, but it’s optional if you don’t want to buy it.
These Candy Corn Cream Puffs take candy corn to a whole new level and would be a fun addition to any Halloween party.
If you haven’t made cream puffs before, they really are fun and easy to make. Watch my How to Make Cream Puffs video, print the cream puff template, and you’ll be ready to go.
More cream puff recipes on Barbara Bakes:
- Raspberry Cheesecake Cream Puffs – filled with a no-bake raspberry cheesecake filling and drizzled with a tart triple berry icing.
- Churro Cream Puffs – A crisp cinnamon-sugar shell filled with a light and airy cinnamon whipped cream.
Candy Corn Cream Puffs
Ingredients
- ¾ cup heavy cream
- Pinch of salt
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon orange food coloring
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- 16 yellow cream puff shells*
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon water
- ½ teaspoon white icing color
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat heavy cream and salt until soft peaks form. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and food coloring until smooth. Add cream cheese mixture to heavy cream and beat on low speed until incorporated.
- Cut off the top half of the cream puff. Pipe cream mixture into bottom shell. Cover with top half of the cream puff shell. Spread the top of the éclair with the white icing. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
- White Icing
- Combine powdered sugar, heavy cream, water, and white icing color in a small, deep bowl and whisk until smooth. Add more water or powdered sugar if needed to make a smooth, spreadable icing.
Notes
Candy Corn Cream Puffs
Ingredients
- ¾ cup heavy cream
- Pinch of salt
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon orange food coloring
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- 16 yellow cream puff shells*
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon water
- ½ teaspoon white icing color
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat heavy cream and salt until soft peaks form. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and food coloring until smooth. Add cream cheese mixture to heavy cream and beat on low speed until incorporated.
- Cut off the top half of the cream puff. Pipe cream mixture into bottom shell. Cover with top half of the cream puff shell. Spread the top of the éclair with the white icing. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
- White Icing
- Combine powdered sugar, heavy cream, water, and white icing color in a small, deep bowl and whisk until smooth. Add more water or powdered sugar if needed to make a smooth, spreadable icing.
Notes
You can download Simply Sweet Dream Puffs from Amazon. Amazon has a Kindle app that you can use to read e-books on almost any device, including phones, laptops and desktop computers.
It’s also available on Barnes and Noble if you’re a Nook user, and other online book outlets
Martha Bilski
Thanks for the video and recipe! I made my first batch tonight! a success!!
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Martha! So fun to make right 🙂 People will be so impressed.
Nagi@RecipeTinEats
A whole new level for candy corn cream puffs! YUM! These look so delish! I will put it on my list too and Congratulations on your new achievement!
Mary Frances
This sounds so interesting and fun to make. Congrats on your book! I would to check it out 🙂
Annamaria @ Bakewell Junction
Barbara,
I love candy corn. I’d probably eat all the ones topping the cream puffs on the sneak. They look great!
Annamaria
Liren
This takes my candy corn obsession to a whole new level! Incredible!
Liz
Now this is a Halloween treat I love! So elegant and delicious!!! Your e-book is fantastic!!!
Adri
I love these! They are perfect for Halloween!
Chris @ Celebrations At Home
These look so cute and delicious!
June @ How to Philosophize with Cake
What adorable cream puffs! I agree, cream puffs are so fun to make–I’ll have to check out your book sometime! 😀
June @ How to Philosophize with Cake
What adorable cream puffs! I agree, cream puffs are so fun to make–I’ll have to check out your book sometime! 😀
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
Mum your creativity knows no bounds! These look adorable and I bought some of that white colouring the other day! It comes in handy 😀
kristy
Oh my Barbara, these look amazing ! I can wallop a few in one go. LOL
Enjoy & have a great week ahead dear.
Blessings, Kristy
Annalise @ Completely Delicious
These are so fun! You are the cream puff queen!
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc.
so cute! congrats on your book!
Carol
Oh my gosh, how cute are those? Talk about a festive treat for a Halloween party. I’m gonna have to make sure to send this link to Robin-she LOVES candy corn.
That cream cheese/whipped cream filling sounds delicious…….Mmmmmmm