Choux Pasry cream puffs recipe

I promised i would post this recipe and finally here it is lol. This is part of my adventures in french pastries. I plan on doing every recipe i can one by one in my free time and teach myself the art of french baking I'll be posting each time i make something. This is the basic recipe for the choux pastry. These were very easy to make . Its kind of daunting when it comes to dough and cooking it on the stove but i was surprised at how easy these were.

 

 

Dough recipe:

 

1 cup of cake flour

1/2 cup plus 1 tbsp whole milk

1 cup plus 1 tbsp of water

1 tbsp of white sugar

1 pinch of salt

6 tbsp of unsalted butter

4 eggs

1 tbsp vanilla bean paste

 

In a medium sized pot add milk ,water,sugar,vanilla,and salt . Bring to a boil then take off the stove and add flour mix well.

put the pot back on the stove on low stir continuously for 1 one till the batter all comes together and away from the sides

pour into a bowl (plastic will help it cool faster) add eggs one at a time and mix together

Transfer to a pastry or icing bag and pipe into circles you can make large or small depending on what you would like . Pipe onto buttered baking sheet

preheat oven to 350

bake for 10 min or till light golden brown see picture above

 

Filling:

I made a whip cream filling I'm more partial to this then the more custard like fillings you normally find.

 

1 cup of heavy whipping cream

2 tbsp of confection sugar you can add more if you like it more sweet

1 tsp vanilla

 

In a bowl or mixer fitted with the whisk attachment beat heavy cream,sugar and vanilla on high till it forms thick peaks.

Add in pastry/icing bag with a large round tip you can either slice it in half and pipe in between like i did or poke a hold underneath your puff and fill cream from there.

 

You can sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve