Recipe: Ice Cream Puffs (fried cream puffs with ice cream filling)

Ice Cream Puffs (fried cream puffs with ice cream filling)
From: Favorite Island Cookery, Book V, March 1989
Serves 6

1 quart vanilla ice cream
4 eggs, well beaten
4 Tbsp flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 inches peanut oil in skillet for deep frying

Form 6 ice cream balls with ice cream scoop. Place on wax paper squares and freeze until hard.

Combine eggs, flour, and baking powder; mix. Coat ice cream balls with this mixture and return to freezer until very hard.

Just before serving, heat oil to 375 degrees F. Add another coating of pastry mixture around each ice cream ball. Deep fry balls in hot oil until pastry covering puffs up. Serve at once.