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Paris-Brest

The Paris-Brest is a famous French patisserie: a ring of choux pastry, scattered with flaked almonds and icing sugar and filled with a praline cream. The name comes from a historic cycle race between Paris and Brest (600 km or 372 miles), as the shape is like a bicycle wheel.

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Last modified on: May 8^th 2011

Keywords for this recipe:Pastry Choux pastry Praline cream

For 6 cakes, you will need:

1 350 g Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream)
2 100 g Praline
3 350 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
4 1 egg yolk
5 50 g flakeds almonds
6 icing sugar
Total weight: 870 grams

Change these quantities to make: 2 cakes 3 cakes 6 cakes 12 cakes 18 cakes

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 58 min.	20 min.	2 hours 18 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 40 min.

Prepare 350 g Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream). Incorporate 100 g Praline using a whisk or a maryse to make a praline cream.

Set aside.

Stage 2 - 20 min.

Prepare 350 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux).

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Place a sheet of cooking parchment face down on the worktop. Draw circles about 6 cm (2.5 inches) in diameter using a round object or cutter), leaving space between them.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Place the sheet right way up on a baking sheet and stick the corners down with a little of the choux pastry mixture.

Preheat the oven to 210°C (420°F).

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Use a forcing bag with a nozzle diameter 10 to pipe rings of dough on the circles you have drawn.

With this method you can create perfectly round rings.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Coat the tops with a little beaten egg using a brush.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Scatter 50 g flakeds almonds over the top, then a little icing sugar.

Stage 8 - 20 min.

Bake until the rings are well risen and golden brown.

Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Begin the assembly: with a serrated knife, cut the rings horizontally through the middle.

Stage 10 - 3 min.

Remove the top, then fill the bottom with praline cream using a forcing bag with a large diameter (15)fluted nozzle...

Stage 11

...until completely covered with praline cream.

Stage 12 - 1 min.

Replace the top.

Stage 13 - 20 min.

Finish with another sprinkling of icing sugar and put to wait in the fridge.

Remarks

You can make a praline butter cream rather than (confectioner's custard).

To make one large Paris-Brest rather than lots of small ones, draw a circle about 20 cm (8 inches) in diameter, piping 2 "sausages" side by side and a third on top. Then proceed as for the small ones, but allow a longer cooking time.

Keeping

2 or 3 hours in the fridge.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
754 Kcal or 3,157 Kj	57 gr	172 gr	136 gr
38 %	22 %	16 %	21 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
87 Kcal or 364 Kj	7 gr	20 gr	16 gr
4 %	3 %	2 %	2 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
126 Kcal or 528 Kj	9 gr	29 gr	23 gr
6 %	4 %	3 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 cakes : 4.04 €
Per cake : 0.67 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

Home made, after Gaston Lenôtre.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Choux pastry (pâte à choux): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Saint Honoré cake, Gougères, Valay-Brest, Profiteroles, Chouquettes, ... All
	Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pear verbena tarts, Millefeuille, Strawberries with mint and cream, Almond cream or frangipane, Yvetot Douillons, ... All
	Praline: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Succès praliné (praline meringue), Praline rochers, ... All
	Flakeds almonds: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Benoîton, Nougatine, Brioche royale, Broad bean salad with Parmesan, Almond tuiles, ... All

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