Hi, dear bloggers and food lovers. I hope you’re having a great day. Today I’m going to share a sweet and tender dessert: choux pastries filled with a chewy, sweet chocolate filling. They’re simple and easy to make, and the texture is soft and melts in your mouth. I haven’t bought a piping tip yet, so I decided to make the choux pastries without one, and they turned out like this—they look like shells, don’t they? Okay, let’s get right to it.
Ingredients:
Choux Pastry:
- 250 ml water
- 120 grams margarine
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 150 grams all-purpose flour
- 4 eggs
Chocolate Filling:
- 250 ml milk
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp margarine
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 egg yolks
- a pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions:
Choux Pastry:
- Pour the water into a saucepan
- Add the margarine to it
- Add sugar to the saucepan
- Turn on the heat and melt all the ingredients until they come to a boil
- Turn off the heat, then add the all-purpose flour to the pan
- Stir all the ingredients until they form a dough
- Transfer the dough and let it cool
- Once cooled, beat the dough with a mixer and add the eggs one at a time
Beat until the dough is well mixed and has a texture like this
Transfer the dough to a piping bag
- Pipe the dough onto a baking sheet greased with margarine
Place the dough in a preheated oven
Bake the cream puffs for 30 minutes at 200°C
- Once they’ve risen and are fully baked, turn off the oven and let the cream puffs cool slowly inside the oven
- Set aside
Chocolate Filling:
- Pour the milk into a saucepan
- Add the sugar
- Add the margarine to the saucepan
- Add the cornstarch and cocoa powder
- Add the egg yolks, pinch of salt and vanilla extract to the mixture
- Mix all the ingredients together before turning on the heat
- Once well combined, turn on the heat and cook over low heat while stirring constantly
- Once the chocolate filling has thickened, turn off the heat, transfer the filling to a piping bag, and let the chocolate filling cool
- Once the choux pastries and chocolate filling have cooled, trim the edges of the choux pastries slightly
- Fill them with the chocolate filling
- The Choux Shells with Chocolate Filling are ready to eat