Want a technique that will allow for an incredible variety of beautiful French pastries to produce masterpieces in your own kitchen? The good news for those of you who love elegant cakes, s but it is perhaps not the most talented of cooks, is that making French choux pastry is the dead simple. And it's really the basis for many desserts - you can even invent your own.
What choux pastry anyway? If you ever had a cream puff, puff pastry you've had. It is a very simple concoction made from water, butter, flour and eggs. The dough itself is sticky and looks hopeless, but when you dozing in the oven on spectacular.
The secret of the ramparts of the puffs in the mix. All you need is a strong arm. Or I guess you could use your mixer if you're already at the gym today. And make sure your choux pastry recipe to follow to the letter carefully measuring all ingredients, add them in the right order, and after cooking instructions.
I make this sound harder than it is! Do not be intimidated. As I said, it's easy! Once you choux pastry down, you all cream puffs you could want in a matter of minutes.
But do not stop there. Now you can try one of these elegant French pastries, you know how to make puff pastry. (If you go down the list, the cookies more complicated.)
Chouquettes: These are small puffs without the cream, topped with big grains of sugar, a little sweet. French kids love these for snacks and they would do a quick-to-fix treat anytime. I even let my kids have them for breakfast.
Snowballs: OK these you know. Fill your cream puffs with custard, chocolate pudding, whipped cream, or whatever you want. You can sprinkle with powdered sugar or drizzle them with chocolate or caramel sauce. Imaginative get, there are no rules.
Eclairs: These are small oblong cakes made from choux pastry. They are traditionally filled with chocolate or coffee ice cream with a fondant and then in a similar flavor. Rum and raspberry flavors Claire is also sometimes made in France.
Religion: A large cream puff cream puff with a child riding on top. The puffs are filled with different types of creams, tops covered with powdered sugar and maybe a little butter cream for a final design;
Profit Role:. You may have it in a French restaurant. Three or four puffs stuffed with ice cream and chocolate sauce is drizzled on top. Of course you can do with different fillings and toppings. Yum. Look, this is an elegant dessert, it's not much work at all!
Paris-Brest: This is a wheel-shaped cake, which was originally made for a bicycle race between Paris and Brest, on the Atlantic coast of France to celebrate. The cake is cut in half and filled with praline cream then the top is sprinkled with powdered sugar and almond slices.
Saint-Honoré: Here is an amateur still. A base of layered pastry is finished with a ring of filled cream puffs then topped with a hardened caramel. Whipped cream is mounded in the center before serving.
Croquembouche: The masterpiece of French choux pastry desserts. A mountain of filled cream puffs held together by caramel and further decorated, perhaps with drawn. It's a special cake reserved for special occasions in France and you will see at weddings and baptism parties.
Savoury Puffs
Unswettened choux pastry can also be used to make French appetizers. Bite-size puffs filled with cream cheese, salmon mousse, foie gras or whatever suits you. Would not it be nice to your next party?
If you add grated cheese to your choux pastry you get gougres. They are also popular appetizer time in France.
What choux pastry anyway? If you ever had a cream puff, puff pastry you've had. It is a very simple concoction made from water, butter, flour and eggs. The dough itself is sticky and looks hopeless, but when you dozing in the oven on spectacular.
The secret of the ramparts of the puffs in the mix. All you need is a strong arm. Or I guess you could use your mixer if you're already at the gym today. And make sure your choux pastry recipe to follow to the letter carefully measuring all ingredients, add them in the right order, and after cooking instructions.
I make this sound harder than it is! Do not be intimidated. As I said, it's easy! Once you choux pastry down, you all cream puffs you could want in a matter of minutes.
But do not stop there. Now you can try one of these elegant French pastries, you know how to make puff pastry. (If you go down the list, the cookies more complicated.)
Chouquettes: These are small puffs without the cream, topped with big grains of sugar, a little sweet. French kids love these for snacks and they would do a quick-to-fix treat anytime. I even let my kids have them for breakfast.
Snowballs: OK these you know. Fill your cream puffs with custard, chocolate pudding, whipped cream, or whatever you want. You can sprinkle with powdered sugar or drizzle them with chocolate or caramel sauce. Imaginative get, there are no rules.
Eclairs: These are small oblong cakes made from choux pastry. They are traditionally filled with chocolate or coffee ice cream with a fondant and then in a similar flavor. Rum and raspberry flavors Claire is also sometimes made in France.
Religion: A large cream puff cream puff with a child riding on top. The puffs are filled with different types of creams, tops covered with powdered sugar and maybe a little butter cream for a final design;
Profit Role:. You may have it in a French restaurant. Three or four puffs stuffed with ice cream and chocolate sauce is drizzled on top. Of course you can do with different fillings and toppings. Yum. Look, this is an elegant dessert, it's not much work at all!
Paris-Brest: This is a wheel-shaped cake, which was originally made for a bicycle race between Paris and Brest, on the Atlantic coast of France to celebrate. The cake is cut in half and filled with praline cream then the top is sprinkled with powdered sugar and almond slices.
Saint-Honoré: Here is an amateur still. A base of layered pastry is finished with a ring of filled cream puffs then topped with a hardened caramel. Whipped cream is mounded in the center before serving.
Croquembouche: The masterpiece of French choux pastry desserts. A mountain of filled cream puffs held together by caramel and further decorated, perhaps with drawn. It's a special cake reserved for special occasions in France and you will see at weddings and baptism parties.
Savoury Puffs
Unswettened choux pastry can also be used to make French appetizers. Bite-size puffs filled with cream cheese, salmon mousse, foie gras or whatever suits you. Would not it be nice to your next party?
If you add grated cheese to your choux pastry you get gougres. They are also popular appetizer time in France.
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