Profiteroles


Profiteroles
Small choux pastry puffs, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with a rich smooth chocolate sauce.
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Last modified on: October 13th 2010
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Times for this recipe
Preparation
1 hour 20 min.
Cooking
15 min.
All in all
1 hour 35 min.
Preparation 1 hour 20 min.
Cooking 15 min.
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Stage 1 - ⌛ 40 min.
Profiteroles : Stage 1
Preheat oven to 220°C or 428°F.

Make 450 g choux pastry (pâte à choux).

Using a forcing bag, pipe small heaps of dough (about 1 cm or 0.8 inch diameter) on a baking sheet.

Round off the small peaks with a tablespoon dipped in milk.

Sprinkle a pinch of sugar on each heap.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 15 min.
Profiteroles : Stage 2
Put in the oven and cook until choux are golden brown.

Leave to cool on a rack.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 20 min.
Profiteroles : Stage 3
With a steak knife, split each choux in half, horizontally.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 15 min.
Profiteroles : Stage 4
Fill each choux with a teaspoon of vanilla ice-cream.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 5 min.
Profiteroles : Stage 5
And finally, top with plenty of chocolate sauce, warm or hot, and serve immediately.
Remarks
Classic profiteroles, as in this recipe, can be varied many ways: "inversed" with chocolate ice-cream and custard (crème anglaise), "mint out" with chocolate ice-cream, and mint crème anglaise or "mint in" with mint ice-cream and chocolate sauce, etc.

If you like them, you can sprinkle chopped almonds with the sugar top of dough heaps.

It's a dessert that can easily be made in advance, but filling with ice-cream and topping with chocolate sauce must be done at the last minute.

Contrary to most other recipes and websites, I think that profiteroles should be made with small "bite-size" puffs rather than big ones which need to be cut before eating. You should be able to eat profiteroles with a teaspoon.
Keeping: To eat right now.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins CarbohydratesFats CaloriesEnergy
Per 100 g27 g RDI=42 %144 g RDI=54 %101 g RDI=139 %273 kcal RDI=14 %1,145 kJ RDI=14 %
Per profiteroles6 g RDI=10 %35 g RDI=14 %25 g RDI=34 %68 kcal RDI=3 %285 kJ RDI=3 %
Whole recipe272 g RDI=418 %1,433 g RDI=541 %1,007 g RDI=1,379 %2,720 kcal RDI=136 %11,389 kJ RDI=136 %
Whole recipe
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman
Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, Gluten, egg
How much will it cost?
For 40 profiteroles
3.85 €
Per profiteroles
0.10 €
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This recipe uses (among others)
Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
Chocolate sauce
Chocolate sauce
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  • This is another weakness of mine. I love choux pastry. Sprinkle profiteroles with chopped almond and sugar?? Oh, that would be a real treat. My favourite is profiterole filled with beaten cream with a bit of sugar. Yummy!
    Posted by Raspberries april 15th 2011 at 12:53 n° 1

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