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Profiterole (Greek Cream Puff Pastry)

Name: Profiterole (Greek Cream Puff Pastry)
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 75 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: water 250 ml; butter 100 g; all-purpose flour 150 g; eggs 4 pieces; milk 500 ml; pastry cream 500 ml; caster sugar 120 g; dark chocolate 200 g; heavy cream 100 ml; vanilla essence 5 ml

Choux puffs filled with pastry cream and drenched in chocolate.

75 minutes · 8 servings · Moderate

Profiteroles are an exercise in choux pastry rather than a dessert, and the puffs are kept in the oven until they stop taking up space and start turning colour. They are filled close to serving so the pastry does not go soft inside. The chocolate is poured over hot so it sets against the shell.

Ingredients

water250 ml
butter100 g
all-purpose flour150 g
eggs4 pieces
milk500 ml
pastry cream500 ml
caster sugar120 g
dark chocolate200 g
heavy cream100 ml
vanilla essence5 ml

Directions

1
Boil water, butter and sugar; beat in flour 3 minutes, then the eggs 3 minutes.
2
Pipe small rounds and bake at 200C for 20 minutes.
puffs are puffed and golden
3
Whip the cream; fold into the pastry cream with vanilla.
4
Split each puff and fill with the cream.
5
Melt the chocolate with cream and pour over.

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