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board]    • 3  Hi everyone. To my knowledge, there isn't a Beard
Papa's cream puff store in Toronto yet, but there is out west. I
haven't tried it, but according to an article I read
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...), their cream puffs
are filled with a custard "inside an inner shell of choux pastry
and an outer layer of pie crust". I'm just trying to figure out
what that means and how they're able to do that. How do they
encase a cream puff / choux pastry in pie dough (assuming that
they bake it only once)? Hmm .... any descriptions and insights
would be much appreciated. Thanks.    1. Click to Upload a photo
(10 MB limit)   1. I'm more interested in 'why' they encase the
cream puff in a pie crust.      1 Reply     1. re: Yongeman
Yeah me too. Although I suspect they do it so that the exterior
is nice and crispy/flaky.I would do that if I made a cream puff
too, except that I'd encase it in puff pastry ... if that's
possible at all