Author: Sno-covered Casey Clause of Maple Shade, NJ, USA
Ingredients
1cupwater
1/2cupmargarine or butter
4eggs
1 1/2cupsmilk
3/4cupsour cream
1/8teaspoonalmond extract
1/4teaspoonvanilla extract
2cans cherry pie filling
1cupall purpose flour
1package3.4 oz vanilla instant pudding
Instructions
Cream Puff Ring: Heat oven to 400 degrees. Heat water and margarine to rolling boil in sauce pan. Stir in flour, turn burner on low. Stir Vigorously over low heat until mixture forms a ball, about 1 minute. Remove from heat. Beat in eggs, all at once. Continue beating until smooth. Drop dough by heaping tablespoons in a 8"-9" circle about the shape of a wreath onto a greased cookie sheet. Smooth out ring with a spatula. Bake until puffed and golden brown, about 50-60 minutes. Do not under-cook, and DO NOT peak in oven or it will collapse. Cool away from draft. After cooled, but off top and pull out any loose filaments of soft dough.
Prepare Vanilla Filling: mix 1 1/2 cups milk, 3/4 cup sour cream, vanilla, almond extract and pudding mix until smooth. Best if refrigerate for 1/2 hour.
Fill Ring: *Fill ring with pudding mixture. Top pudding with cherry pie filling. Place top of ring on and put some cherries on top.
Notes
Depending on how big, or little or oblong or square ( I have had all shapes), you may need a double batch of pudding mixture. You can use any pudding filling you enjoy, as well as the pie filling. Mix it up, use what you like!