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

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, choux pastry (cream puff). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Choux pastry (Cream puff) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Choux pastry (Cream puff) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

In English, we sometimes call it "cream puff pastry," which is infinitely more appealing, but fails to communicate the impressive versatility of choux. Light and airy cream puffs, filled with thick pastry cream, fluffy whipped cream, or velvety crème légère (pastry cream lightened with whipped cream), are a classic dessert. Composed of just two versatile elements— pâte à choux and the filling of your choice—they're also cinch to whip up. The foundation of the perfect cream puff is light, airy pâte à choux, which is made with eggs, flour, and butter.

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

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

Cream puff is made with a French pastry dough, called choux pastry or pate a choux. To make choux pastry, you actually cook the flour in water and butter to form a paste, then beat in the eggs at the end. When baked, the dough expands in the oven creating a hollow shell, to be filled with all sorts of delicious fillings. Choux pastry (pronounced "shoe", see what I did there?) is most commonly used to make cream puffs, eclairs, and churros.

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!

When baked, the dough expands in the oven creating a hollow shell, to be filled with all sorts of delicious fillings. Choux pastry (pronounced "shoe", see what I did there?) is most commonly used to make cream puffs, eclairs, and churros. A really impressive choux pastry dessert is the enviable croquembouche. It's basically a tower of cream puffs drizzled with caramel. This is officially on my "to bake" list!

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