Pastry Towers

I know I promised this wouldn't be a photo diary of a fatty but I saw this recipe in a old cookbook my mom gave me and had to try it. If something looks delicious even in black and white it has to taste good. So I did it, I made a pastry tower.The individual pastries are called Pâte à Choux, which weren't that hard to make.

• 1 cup water
• 3/4 stick butter (6 tablespoons)
• 1 tablespoon sugar plus 1/8 teaspoon salt (for sweet)
• 1 teaspoon salt (for savory)
• 5 3/4 ounces flour
• 1 cup eggs, about 4 large eggs and 2 whites

Just heat the water, sugar and salt in a sauce pan. Then when melted add the flour, take the pan off the heat and add the eggs. Stir it well, until the mixture comes off the sides. Then scoop it all into a pastry bag and make little one inch puffs on a baking sheet. 350 for 10 minutes.

To keep them in place I dipped them in caramelized sugar (equal parts sugar and water cooked over med. heat) and stuck them around a small glass. Okay I cheated big deal.

I finished the tower with melted chocolate of course.

Then it was massacred/ devoured in a matter of seconds.