Banana Rum Puffs
- 2 cups cold unsalted butter
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 large firm-ripe bananas
- 12 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 12 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons rum
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 12 cup confectioners' sugar
- Make dough: Cut butter into 1/4-inch slices.
- In a large bowl with your fingertips or a pastry blender blend together flour, salt, and butter until mixture resembles coarse meal with some pea-size lumps of butter.
- Stir in sour cream with a fork until incorporated and form dough into a ball.
- Divide dough into 6 portions and form each piece into a 5-inch square.
- Chill dough, wrapped separately in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 2 hours, and up to 3 days, or freeze, wrapped well, up to 1 month.
- Make filling: Mash enough of bananas to measure 1 cup and in a bowl stir together with remaining filling ingredients until smooth.
- On a lightly floured surface roll out 1 dough square (keep remaining dough chilled or frozen) into a 15- by 6-inch rectangle (about 1/8 inch thick).
- With a sharp knife and a ruler cut rectangle into ten 3-inch squares.
- Lay squares over ungreased mini-muffin cups (2 cups will remain empty) and drop 1 heaping teaspoon filling onto center of squares.
- Bring all four corners of squares together and press gently to seal (filling will not be completely enclosed; this process will ease filled pastries into muffin cups).
- Chill filled pastries 30 minutes.
- Make more pastries in same manner.
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Bake pastries in batches in lower third of oven until pale golden, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Cool pastries in pans on racks 10 minutes and transfer to racks to cool completely.
- Pastries keep, layered between sheets of wax paper in airtight containers, and frozen, 2 weeks.
- Before serving, thaw puffs and reheat in one layer on a baking sheet in a 325F oven 7 to 10 minutes.
- Cool puffs on a rack.
- Dust puffs with confectioners' sugar before serving.
cold unsalted butter, allpurpose, salt, sour cream, bananas, cream cheese, sugar, egg yolks, rum, lemon juice, sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/banana-rum-puffs-300016 (may not work)