Choux pastry (Cream puff)
Choux pastry (Cream puff)

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, choux pastry (cream puff). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Choux pastry (Cream puff) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Choux pastry (Cream puff) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Most of the ingredients are cooked together on the stove; this initial cooking causes the starch in the flour to gelatinize, which will help the pastry hold onto steam and puff up. The Spruce Eats has an interesting article explaining the science of choux pastry if you're into that!! Whisk the eggs well and then add them to the choux ball.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook choux pastry (cream puff) using 13 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Choux pastry (Cream puff):
  1. Get Choux pastry
  2. Get 1 cup water
  3. Prepare 250 g butter
  4. Get 1/2 Tbsp salt
  5. Make ready 1 Tbsp sugar
  6. Prepare 1 cup all-purpose flour(Maida)
  7. Get 4 eggs
  8. Get Cream
  9. Prepare 100 g butter
  10. Take 2/3 cup powdered sugar
  11. Get 1 tbsp Honey/ Maple syrup
  12. Prepare 1 cup Heavy fresh cream
  13. Make ready 1 Tbsp Vanilla essence

Yes, it doesn't use any raising agent like baking powder. Instead, the high moisture content helps to create steam during the cooking process, which puffs up these pastries. How to Make French Cream Puffs, choux chantilly Here are little choux buns filled with whipped cream. Choux pastry is crispy, airy shell, which is cooked twice.

Instructions to make Choux pastry (Cream puff):
  1. First we will make the cream as we need to chill it by at least 2-3 hrs before using…
  2. Well, there are many ways of making cream, so we will go with a simple & classy one today…. Take a mixing bowl & add all the ingredients under CREAM section…& mix it all well. Use an electric beater or your spatula. The consistency should not be too flowy.
  3. Give it a mix before keep in fridge for 2-3 hrs.
  4. Now we will make our choux pastry batter..
  5. Take a saucepan, add one cup water, 250g of butter and mix…after 2-3 min add 1/2Tbsp salt,1Tbsp sugar. Keep the flame low.
  6. As this mix comes to a boil(it will take about 5-7 min) then add 1cup Maida..keep stirring continuously….till a thin film is seen at the bottom of pan.
  7. Then take this mix out & properly cool it…bring it to room temperature.(Do not keep in fridge)
  8. Then add one egg at a time- mix- repeat. Electric beater / spatula can be used.
  9. After adding all the eggs…the consistency will be
  10. Keep mixing gently…do not over mix. Stop mixing when you achieve - triangular shaped batter dripping from the spatula👇🏻
  11. At this stage Pre-heat the oven at 200°C for 10 min.
  12. Transfer the batter into a piping bag and make small round puff on the baking tray
  13. Place these in the oven and bake at 200°C for 15 min & then reduce the temp to 180°C for 15 min. [DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN IN BETWEEN]
  14. You will notice from outside these goodies will rise….so after after the said time limit….take out the puffs & let it cool down.
  15. The golden colour & cracks on the surface means our puffs aur properly baked. The puffs should be hollow from inside..so to fill the cream inside.(I hv made the hole to pipe in the cream)
  16. After the puffs come down to room temp. then bring out the cream from fridge & pipe inside as said above.
  17. Decorate it the way you want… with cream, chocochip, mapel syrup…sprinklers…etc & enjoy this sweet treat.
  18. Enjoy baking!

And the filling is delicate and sweet white cream. See my recipe for vanilla bean pastry cream. While I enjoy it straight, traditionally it would have some whipped cream folded in to lighten the mixture. To fill the puffs, first cut a small hole out of the surface of each bun along the cracks. Pipe desired amount of pastry cream inside and replace the missing piece.

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