Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Easy Profiteroles (Choux à la Crème) Recipe

I had ice cream stuffed profiteroles at my friend's house the other day and they were the cutest little desserts ever so I knew I had to give it a shot. Turns out, they are SUPER easy to make! Made them last night at about 2am and they turned out perfectly on the first go. Here's a step by step recipe:


                                            
Ingredients:

Pastry-
½ cup of flour
¼ tsp of salt
5 tbsp butter 
½ cup of water 
2 large eggs 
1 tbsp sugar 

Chocolate Sauce-
½ cup of chocolate chips
splash of heavy cream
splash of vanilla extract

Filling-
Ice cream or whipped cream



                                       


Here are (some) of the ingredients. The salt and water are missing, sorry!

Line a baking pan with parchment paper and preheat oven to 400F.

Bring water and butter to a boil in a saucepan. 

Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. 

Water and butter combined.

Add the dry ingredient mixture into the saucepan with the water and butter.

Mix it well and take it off the heat. 

Combine ONE egg at a time.

A creamy/doughy mixture should form and that's the queue to stop mixing. 

Put the mixture in a piping bag (or a plastic bag and snip off the end).

Pipe the mixture into 1-2" rounds. Make sure they're all the same size or the smaller ones will burn at the bottom (a few of mine did that!)


Bake in the oven at 400F for 10 minutes and then at 350F for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown. Once they're golden brown, turn off the oven and leave the oven door open for 10 minutes to dry out the inside of the pastry. If this step is skipped, the pastries will deflate once they're out of the oven!

While those are baking, melt the chocolate chips and heavy cream in a saucepan and add a splash of vanilla near the end.

Let them cool for a little bit and slice them 3/4 of the way through, fill it with a scoop of ice cream or whipped cream, top with the chocolate sauce and dust it with some icing sugar.


These were so good! I can eat about five of them in one sitting. Definitely making this again :)





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