I found this site when searching for simple cream puff recipe simply fell in love with this because the ingredients are simple and the steps easy to follow. Since the intent is making cream puffs, I didn’t include sugar in the choux pastry as required in the original recipe.
The ingredients I used are
- 60g of plain wheat flour (original recipe calls for strong plain flour)
- 50g of butter (my preference is salted)
- 150ml of water
- 2 large eggs, well beaten
Steps:
1. Sift the flour.
2. Put the water and butter in a saucepan over a moderate heat and stir with a wooden spoon. Turn off heat immediately as soon as the mixture comes up to the boil.
3. ‘Shoot’ the flour into the above mixture while
beating the mixture vigorously with a wooden spatula/electric mixer. Beat until a small ball of paste that does not stick to the side is formed.4. Add eggs a little at a time, mixing each addition in thoroughly before adding the next. Beat until you have smooth and glossy paste.
5. Lightly grease a baking sheet then hold it under cold running water. Tap it sharply
to get rid of excess moisture.6. Scoop the mixture with a spoon onto the baking sheet, leaving 2.5cm between them.
7. Bake in pre-heated oven (on high shelf) at 200’C for 10 minutes and 220’C for another 15-20 minutes.
8. Pierce the side of each one to let out the steam, then cool on a wire rack.
posted by domesticgoddess at 4/24/2006 03:49:00 pm
looks good DG!