Basic Choux Pastry
Basic Choux Pastry

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Today I'm showing you how to make sweet cream puffs. Choux Pastry, also known as Pate a Choux, is a classic French pastry batter. In its basic form, it contains only water, milk, butter, flour, and eggs.

Basic Choux Pastry is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Basic Choux Pastry is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook basic choux pastry using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Choux Pastry:
  1. Take Choux pastry
  2. Get 45 grams Butter
  3. Get 50 ml each Water, milk
  4. Prepare 60 grams Plain flour
  5. Take 2 Eggs
  6. Make ready 1 Water (for misting)
  7. Make ready 1 or granulated sugar
  8. Get Cream filling
  9. Make ready 1 ☆ ↓↓this is my favorite
  10. Get 1 Custard cream
  11. Take 100 ml Double cream

Put your pastry skills to the test and make a dainty array of choux buns, profiteroles and éclairs A classic eclair recipe of light choux pastry filled with rich crème pâtissière. Piping still warm choux pastry is one of baking's greatest pleasures. Using a piping bag is the best way to shape the pastry for basking, and using a template is a great way of producing uniformly shaped. How to make choux pastry (pâte à choux) perfectly every time to use in recipes for profiteroles, éclairs, cream puffs and so much more.

Instructions to make Basic Choux Pastry:
  1. Preparation Cut the butter into small pieces. Sift the flour. Beat the eggs. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
  2. Make the choux pastry Put the butter, water and milk in a saucepan and heat over medium.
  3. Turn the heat off once it comes to a boil. Add the flour in one go and beat vigorously until you have a ball of a paste.
  4. Return the sauce pan to the heat and heat over medium heat. When you can see a film of paste on the bottom of the pan, remove from the heat.
  5. Add the beaten eggs, a little at a time, until you obtain a consistency such that the paste drops slowly from a wooden spatula.
  6. Shape the choux paste Put the paste into a piping bag and pipe the paste into the sizes you want. Flatten the tips on top with a moistened finger.
  7. This is an easier way: Spoon similar portions of paste onto baking paper and shape the paste with your moistened hands.
  8. For soft choux, spray some water onto each portion of paste. If you don't have a sprayer, use moistened fingers to flick water onto them.
  9. For crispy choux, sprinkle the tops with granulated sugar instead of water.
  10. Bake the choux For large choux & eclairs, bake in a pre-heated oven to 200°C for 15 minutes and reduce the temperature to 180°C. Bake for approximately 10 minutes.
  11. For small choux, bake at 200°C for 10 minutes, then at 180°C for about 5 minutes. Adjust the baking time according to your oven.
  12. The crispy choux will burn easily, so cover with aluminum foil before the pastry has browned too much.
  13. For the choux cream filling, mix the custard and stiff-whipped double cream and fill the cooled choux pastries.
  14. Eclairs At Step 6, pipe the paste into thin oblongs, spray with water, and bake. Pipe the cream into the cooled pastries and spread melted chocolate on top.
  15. Try this variation! Tarte de Petit Choux

Fill pastry into a piping bag attached with a round or rosette nozzle. So, why is it so tricky to make you might ask? Well, there are normally a lot of nuances to making the perfect choux pastry. Choux pastry (pronounced "shoo") is used for making beignets, cream puffs, éclairs, and gougères, among other things, and it's leavened entirely by steam, not by baking powder, baking soda, or yeast. Choux pastry creates delicious fluffy, air balls of cooked dough.

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