Sunday, 1 July 2012

Nearly Angelic Profiteroles

Profiteroles are so nice ... but rather naughty too! Today i've made some strawberry profiteroles that are nearly healthy - well, they've got fresh strawberries as a filling instead of fresh cream.
Choux pastry seems difficult to do, but once you've got the hang of it it's quite a cheap base for a lovely pudding, you can use lots of different fillings and toppings.
To balance up the healthy strawberries I added this rather lovely strawberry chocolate topping ...

Anyway, here's the recipe, give it a go!

Nearly Angelic Profiteroles
(Makes 8)

1/4 pint of water
50g margerine or butter
65g plain flour
2 medium eggs

fresh strawberries
1 packet of Silver Spoon strawberry chocolate buttons

  1. Put the water into a small saucepan and add the margerine or butter. Bring to the boil until the margerine/butter has melted.
  2. Take the pan off the heat and add the flour. Mix it well with a wooden spoon until it forms a ball.
  3. Add the eggs one at a time and mix well - at first they may seem like they are not mixing in, but keep at it!
  4. Push the choux pastry mixture into a piping bag (use your largest noxzzle) and squeeze 8 equal 'mountains' of the mixture onto a baking tray.
  5. Bake for about 15 mins (until golden) at 200c/Gas Mark 7.
  6. Once they cooked profiteroles have cooled, cut open along the middle with a knife, and fill with sliced strawberries.
  7. Meanwhile, half fill a small sucepan with boiling water, place a metal or glass mixing bowl over the top and melt the strawberry buttons. Decorate each profiterole with a swirl of chocolate. Let the chocolate set and then eat them - before someone else does!!!

1 comment:

  1. I love what these look like, strawberry choc topping - yum! Really must get around to trying choux pastry. x

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