Profiteroles
Here’s my simple way to get perfect profiteroles.
Print PinCourse: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Keyword: Choux pastry
Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cooling time: 20 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Choux Pastry:
- 50 g Butter
- 125 ml Water
- 85 g Plain flour
- 2 Eggs
Chantilly Cream:
- 300 ml Double cream
- 2 tsps Vanilla bean paste
- 40 g Icing sugar
Chocolate Ganache:
- 150 ml Double cream
- 100 g Dark chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200℃.
- Melt the butter over a medium heat. Then pour in the water and bring it to the boil.
- Turn it back down to a medium heat, tip the flour in and whilst still over the heat, beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until the dough comes together and it starts to pull away from the sides.
- Take it off the heat and set aside for ten minutes to cool down.
- Once it has cooled, beat in the eggs one at a time until you have a smooth, thick and glossy mixture.
- Grease and line two large baking tins. Use two teaspoons to make small balls, place them onto the baking tins a few cm apart. They will double in size.
- Bake them for 18 minutes.
- Take them out of the oven, then turn the oven down to 180℃.
- Use a knife to cut a small hole in each profiterole, this will let steam escape.Place them back into the oven for a further 5 minutes, until they are golden and crisp.
- Transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, you can make the chantilly cream. Pour the cream into a large mixing bowl along with the vanilla paste and icing sugar. Beat it with an electric whisk until it holds stiff peaks. Be careful not to over whip it.
- Place the cream into a piping bag, then once the pastry is cool, poke the nozzle into the slit you made earlier and squirt the cream into the middle.
- To Make the chocolate topping, chop the chocolate into small chunks.
- Pour the cream into a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
- Pour the hot cream over the chopped chocolate and beat with a whisk until smooth.
- You can dip each profiterole in the chocolate or drizzle it over, it is up to you.