Alton Brown's "The Puffy" | Beantown Baker

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Alton Brown’s “The Puffy”

As you all know, I love Alton Brown. I’ve made a few of his recipes recently including his overnight cinnamon rolls and his famous chewy chocolate chip cookie. He did a great episode of Good Eats where he created three very different versions of chocolate chip cookie by making slight variations of the Nestle Tollhouse recipe.

To say I really enjoyed “The Chewy” is an understatement. It is delicious. I can’t rave about it enough. I decided to try out another recipe from the episode “The Puffy”.

I didn’t have any butter flavored shortening, so I ended up using 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening. Other than that, I followed the recipe exactly. These cookies were very puffy when they came out of the oven, but they deflated quite a bit as they cooled. The cake flour gives these cookies a great texture and this is another great chocolate chip cookie recipe, but I much prefer The Chewy. I just like chewy cookies.

The Puffy – from Alton Brown – I got 4 dozen cookies using my cookie scoop1 cup butter-flavored shortening – I used 1/2 cup shortening + 1/2 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 1/4 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Combine the shortening (and butter), sugar, and brown sugar in a bowl, and cream until light and fluffy. Sift together the cake flour, salt, and baking powder; set aside.

Add the eggs 1 at a time to the creamed mixture. Add vanilla. Increase the speed until thoroughly incorporated.

With the mixer set to low, slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and combine well. Stir in the chocolate chips. Chill the dough (I chilled the dough overnight). Scoop onto parchment-lined baking sheets, 6 per sheet (I used a my regular sized cookie scoop to get smaller cookies). Bake for 13 minutes (mine baked for about 9 minutes) or until golden brown and puffy, checking the cookies after 5 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet for even browning. Cool and store in an airtight-container.

Cookies, Dessert

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14 Responses to “Boston Cream Pie Cheesecake”

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Steph — November 28, 2012 at 7:39 am

This is heavenly!!!
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Eva @ Eva Bakes — November 28, 2012 at 8:42 am

This looks amazing!
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Bee — November 28, 2012 at 12:04 pm

I LOVE Boston Cream pie, and I do love the custard filling but… I never turn down a good cheesecake! This is lovely.
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Ana Fleischmann — November 28, 2012 at 12:14 pm

OMG, it looks SO scrumptious! Trying it very soon!!
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Mal — November 28, 2012 at 1:03 pm

Yum! I’d love a slice of this right now

Mal @ The Chic Geek
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Rachel @ Baked by Rachel — November 28, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Yours looks fantastic! So funny we both had a similar idea.
- beantownbaker — November 28th, 2012 @ 9:34 pm
  
  I know! It’s always crazy when stuff like that happens.
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Tim — November 29, 2012 at 6:59 am

Being from Boston, I appreciate this Boston Cream Pie Cheesecake!
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Shannon G — November 29, 2012 at 10:51 am

such a great-looking dessert! great minds 😉
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Megan — November 29, 2012 at 6:09 pm
That looks amazing. I love pastry cream and am kind of surprised you don’t like it… even really good pastry cream? (There’s a lot of bad pastry cream out there.)
- beantownbaker — November 30th, 2012 @ 10:38 am
  
  Yea, it’s really a texture thing for me. I don’t like yogurt for the same reason. Although, maybe I’ve just never had good pastry cream…
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Tracy — December 3, 2012 at 5:34 pm

I love the look of this pie/cake! Seeing the sponge layers and the cheesecake layer makes for an impressive looking cake!
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zahraa saab — May 13, 2014 at 3:18 pm
Hi there ! I was wondering after refrigerating the cheesecake overnight, how much do i have to freeze it for ??? Thank u ! 🙂
- beantownbaker — May 17th, 2014 @ 6:10 pm
  
  Just for a couple hours. It is just to make it more firm.