Pâte à Choux (Choux Pastry) :D

Choux pastry is a weird pastry! Weird because it is NOTHING like other pastries,the way its made,the way it look,and the taste and texture are very unique. Choux pastry can be used to make Profiteroles,Croquembouche's or Croque-En-Bouche's (A french dessert often served at weddings made out of cream filled profiteroles stuck together around a cone shaped tin with caramel-literally translating as "Crunch In Mouth",St Honoré cake, and Éclairs.

Today,our teacher got us into teams and we each made a batch of Profiteroles,So i am sharing the recipe-this is DOUBLED as the original only makes 8-10 profiteroles,if you want the original,just HALF the recipe:

Ingredients:

300ml water.

100g butter or margarine.

120g plain flour.

4 eggs,beaten.

Method:

1.) Melt the butter in the a saucepan with the water and stir continuously until it just starts to boil.

2.) Keeping over the heat,quickly add the flour (which has been sifted) and quickly beat the mixture until it starts to come away from the edges.

3.) Take off the heat and slowly add the beaten eggs,mixing well between each addition.

4.) Fit a piping bag with a large round nozzle,and spoon the choux mixture into the bag,squeezing it down right to the bottom of the bag,to make sure there is no air bubbles.

5.) Pipe 8-10 large round balls of the mixture onto a well greased baking tray.

6.) Bake for 20 minutes until the balls are blown up and are golden brown, DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN UNTIL THIS STAGE!

7.) Cool for 1 hour to make sure the profiteroles dont deflate and go floppy when cut into.

8.) Cut each profiterole into 2 halves,dip one half into some tempered milk chocolate and leave to set,fill the other half with whipped cream or a filling of choice such as Nutella or other chocolate spread.

9.) Join the 2 halves together,with the chocolate covered half on the top, and Voila, PROFITEROLES!

These are relatively easy to make,just make sure the mix is coming away from the edge in step step 2 or it will turn out like cupcake batter (like my first attempt!) 

They will look like this:

(Picture courtesy of M&S)

Thank you for taking the time to view my blog! ~Jake