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Cream Horns: Tiramisu Cream Horns and Peach, Blood Orange, and Basil Cream Horns

At my Dad's request, I made cream horns- the signature bake from Series 6, Episode 8. The challenge is to make 12 each of two different flavors of cream horns- 24 cream horns total. I chose to make tiramisu flavored cream horns and peach, blood orange, and basil cream horns. So what are cream horns? Cream horns are sort of like puff pastry cornucopias. The puff pastry is swirled around a conical mold before baking. After they are baked, the mold is removed and the pastries are completely filled with a cream filling. The traditional cream horn is merely filled with whipped cream, but the filling can be made with different consistencies and fillings.  The cream is quite simple to make; the more difficult part of this challenge is the pastry. Anytime there is a pastry challenge on GBBO, there is always the moaning and groaning about which pastry to use- rough puff or full puff. Rough puff pastry merely requires the incorporation of small chunks of butter into a flour dough b...