🇫🇷 French Cuisine

Profiteroles

Cream Puffs with Chocolate

Prep Time 1 hour
Servings 6
Difficulty Medium
Calories 384 kcal

Crisp, airy choux pastry puffs filled with cold vanilla ice cream or pastry cream, drenched in a cascade of warm dark chocolate sauce.

Ingredients

  • 125ml water
  • 125ml whole milk
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 150g all-purpose flour
  • 4 large eggs
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 500ml vanilla ice cream or pastry cream
  • 200g dark chocolate, chopped
  • 150ml heavy cream
  • 1 tbsp butter

Instructions

  1. 1 Bring water, milk, butter, salt, and sugar to a rolling boil. Remove from heat, add flour all at once, stir vigorously.
  2. 2 Return to medium heat and stir until the dough forms a ball and pulls from the sides (about 2 min). Cool 5 min.
  3. 3 Beat in eggs one at a time until the dough is smooth, glossy, and falls from a spoon in a V-shape.
  4. 4 Pipe walnut-sized mounds onto a lined baking sheet. Bake at 200°C (400°F) for 25 min until puffed, golden, and hollow-sounding.
  5. 5 Cool completely. Cut each puff in half, fill with a scoop of ice cream or pastry cream.
  6. 6 Heat cream, pour over chocolate, stir until smooth. Pile profiteroles on plates, pour warm chocolate sauce over.

Did You Know?

The croquembouche — a towering cone of profiteroles bound with caramel — is the traditional French wedding cake.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/french/profiteroles/