DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Profiteroles
Guillaume Brahimi’s French profiteroles bake a milk-and-water choux paste into dry, hollow puffs, then fill them with vanilla ice cream. A milk, cream, dark-chocolate and butter sauce and icing sugar finish each portion.
About Profiteroles
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Guillaume Brahimi’s profiteroles fill choux pastry with vanilla ice cream and cover it with chocolate sauce. The SBS recipe presents this version as a French dessert and finishes the portions with icing sugar.
Water, milk, sugar and butter are brought to a boil before flour and salt are stirred in. The paste cooks until it pulls away from the saucepan, then goes into a mixer.
Eggs are incorporated one at a time, and the paste is piped into small balls. The choux bake at a higher temperature first, then at a lower temperature until dry and hollow-sounding, before cooling.
For the sauce, milk and cream are heated together and poured over dark chocolate and butter. Whisking brings these ingredients into the chocolate sauce.
The tops are cut from the cooled puffs and replaced after a scoop of vanilla ice cream is added. Chocolate sauce is drizzled over three puffs per portion, with icing sugar sprinkled on top.
Ingredients in Profiteroles
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- Wheat flourbase
- Waterbase
- Sugarsweetener
- Creamfilling
- Pastry Creamfilling
- Cow Milkbase
- Dark Chocolatesauce
- Buttercooking medium
- Eggbinder
- Chocolate saucesauce
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Countries & places
- France
- Cooking traditions
- French