Durian, or the king of fruits, is widely beloved throughout South East Asia for its creamy texture and incredibly sweet flavor. This fruit has a spiky, hard, slightly green exterior encasing the much beloved bright yellow fruit in the interior. In fact, this fruit is so beloved that one was even sold for up to $48,000!
Despite all the fan fare surrounding this fruit, it’s still pretty infamous, mainly due to it’s pungent odor. There’s been multiple headlines in the news of people having to evacuate entire buildings just because one was brought in and it smelled like a gas leak. It’s even banned from some metro stations just for being too smelly to handle.
I grew up eating durian in my household so I’ve learned to love it over the years. I wanted to create something that perfectly utilized the durian’s creamy texture and sweet flavor, while also somewhat masking it’s pungent odor to make this fruit more accessible. In the end, I decided to mix it into some pastry cream and stuff some cream puffs with it.
I made these cream puffs donut shaped just to make them a bit more fun to eat, but you could easily just pipe them out into mounds since that’s quicker and easier to make. I top them off with a green craqueline topping to try to mimic the natural look of a durian with its slightly green, jagged exterior 🙂
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