Choux pastry was originally from France. This wonderful creamy puff has a light and crispy shell on the outside and soft, delicious and creamy custard inside. It’s so easy to make at home with readily available ingredients. The best part is, you can use the same dough to make Éclairs or any other puff.
Ingredients
- For the Dough
- 1 Cup All-Purpose Flour
- 120 Grams Butter
- 1 Cup Water
- A Pinch of Salt
- 4 Eggs
- For the Creamy Custard
- 11/2 Cup Full Cream/Double Toned Milk
- 1/4 Cup Cornflour
- 2 Tbsps Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 Egg Yolks
Preparation
Prep: 20 minutes
Cooking: 25 minutes
- In a saucepan, pour 1 cup of water and butter together and place it on medium flame. Once it comes to a boil, add the flour into it and make the gas on low flame. Take a wooden spatula and mix it all. Keep stirring till it becomes a sticky dough.
- Let the dough completely cool. Then mix 4 eggs, one by one, with a spatula. Pour the dough mixture into a piping bag.
- Next, preheat the oven on 180-degree C. Take a baking tray and put butter paper on it. Make small balls and put egg wash on all. Place the baking tray in a 180 degrees C preheated oven for 20 minutes.
- For the creamy custard, in a pan put 1 cup milk, corn starch, sugar and bring it to a boil. Mix egg yolks and half cup milk in another bowl.
- On low gas flame, put the egg mixture into the boiled milk and vanilla essence. Mix till it becomes a thick custard.
- Once done, take out the puffs from the oven and put the creamy custard into it with using the piping bag or syringe.
