Choux à la Crème

Choux Dough

 

1. Combine water, butter and salt and bring to a light simmer. Stir the mixture to until butter has melted.

 

2. Either add the flour 2 tbsp at a time and fluctuate the heat to ensure the mixture stays warm or add all the flour and mix until combined.

 

3. Once fully combined break up the dough and set to the side to cool for 10 minutes.

 

4. Crack eggs into ramekins to add them with ease. Stir the dough a few stirs to break it up. Add one egg and stir the mixture until the egg is fully combined and the dough sticks to the wall of the saucepan. Then follow the previous step until the remaining 3 eggs have been incorporated.

 

5. Scoop the glossy mixture into a piping bag and if you do not have a piping bag you can use two teaspoons to scoop a small mound onto a baking sheet.

 

6. Using a little water on your fingertip to smooth out the top where you lifted off, this will ensure the puff is a sphere.

 

7. Place on the middle rack at 200°c (fan forced) for 15 minutes. If you find one side of the baking tray of profiteroles are browning more than the other you can turn the trays around at the 8 minute mark.

 

8. Once you have reached the 15 minute mark you can reduce the oven temperature to 170°c (fan forced) and remove the profiteroles from the oven and carefully pierce a small hole in the bottom or the side of the pastry. This will allow the profiteroles to continue to dry out.

 

9. Return the profiteroles to the oven for a further 10 minutes.

 

10. Remove from oven and fully cool.

 

Chantilly Cream

 

1. Combine the cream, mascarpone, vanilla and powdered sugar in a large bowl. With an electric mixer on slow combine the ingredients and when the powdered sugar is mostly incorporated turn your mixer up to high until the mixture has stiffened.

 

Note not to whip too much or the mixture will split.

 

2. Decant the Chantilly cream into a piping bag with a narrow pastry piping tip, ensure you knock the air out of the cream.

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3. Insert the piping tip into the puff and slowly fill the profiterole with the cream.

 

4. Place the filled roll in the fridge to lee the cream cool and this will also assist with the ganache adhering to the pastry.

 

Chocolate Ganache

 

1. Heat your cream either in a microwave in 30 second bursts. I like to use a small saucepan.

 

2. Roughly chop the chocolate and place in a heat proof bowl.

 

3. Pour the warmed milk over the chocolate and let sit for 10 minutes.

 

4. Now mix the cream and the chocolate until smooth and glossy.

 

5. Dip 1/2 to 2/3 the way down the profiterole and set down on a place to set.

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