A long time ago we had a friend who was ga-ga over one of my Mom's signature appetizers: chicken puffs.
What these are is taking the little puffs like you would find in cream puffs - except smaller, and filling them with chicken salad.
Well, she didn't like sweets at all, so we did a tower of chicken puffs! And we held them together with a softened cream cheese "frosting" - but it wasn't sweet, it was garlic and
This is an image of a sweet cream puff cake (or profiterole gateu) but you can do the same thing and put a 40th symbol on top
cream cheese.
Empty puffs can either be bought frozen at the store or you can find the recipe at
Alton Brown - Pate de Choux