Choux Pastry Recipe

Here is an easy recipe for Choux Pastry. Enjoy baking!

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1. Choux Pastry Recipe B ook Prepared by: Mary Grace O. Fernandez

2. Choux pastry is also known as pȃte à choux. It is a hollow French pastry that is cooked twice made from choux paste and is typically eaten cold . The sweet version is normally filled with cream and garnished while a savory version can be filled with shellfish, vegetables, cream cheese and foie gras to be served as hors d’oeuvres.  Easy Cream Choux Pastry

3. Ingredients: 1/2 cup of water (120ml) 1/4 cup of unsalted butter (55g) 1/4 tsp. of salt (1.5g) 1/2 cup of flour (60g) 2 eggs Sweetened Whipped Cream: 1 cup of heavy whipping cream (240ml) 1/2 tsp. of vanilla extract (3ml) 2 Tbsp. of granulated sugar (25g)

4. Tools: Pot Wooden spoon Pastry bag and round tip or plastic bag Baking sheet Silicone baking mat or parchment paper Spoon Knife Glass Hand mixer

5. Step 1: Add , stir, & boil Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. (204 C ). T urn on the stove top to medium heat, then add our water, butter, and salt to a pot . (if your butter is not unsalted, then, you don’t have to add salt) S tir occasionally until the mixture starts to boil. And then remove the pot from the heat.

6. Step 2: Add and stir A dd the flour all at once and stir until a dough forms.

7. Step 3: Stir , touch, crack, stir, crack, and stir Transfer the dough to a large bowl and keep stirring until the dough is only a little warm. Add the eggs one at a time, stirring in between until each gets incorporated .  The mixture will act like it doesn't want to combine with the egg at first, but keep stirring and it will come together nicely.

8. Step 4 Stuff the pastry bag Fill up the pastry bag with the choux pastry dough and use a round tip. Tip: A glass really helps with this process. Twist the top of the pastry bag .

9. Step 5: Squeeze and Bake Next squeeze out the dough in a circular motion, creating a little mound of dough. And then bake them in the oven at 400 degrees F (204 C) for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 350 degrees F (170 C) and bake them for an additional 30 minutes.

10. Step 6 Whip that cream For the whipped cream, add the heavy whipping cream to a bowl A dd the sugar Mercury Add the vanilla extract

11. T hen mix it with a hand or stand mixer until peaks form. Ready to fill up

12. Step 7 Cut, Fill, Toppings Cut them in half using a knife , then add some whipped cream with a spoon or pipe it in, then put the top on. Next powder the top with some powdered sugar. (optional)

13. Now enjoy eating!

14. - Peter Reinhart “It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking.”

15. Reference: Matt, I. T. K. W., & Instructables . (2020, July 21). Easy Cream Puffs Recipe . Instructables . https://www.instructables.com/Easy-Cream-Puffs-Recipe/. Choux Pastry: Baking Processes . BAKERpedia . (2019, January 4). https://bakerpedia.com/processes/choux-pastry/.