Choux à la Crème aka Cream Puffs in English, are delicious little french bites filled with pastry cream. The secret in the easiness of this recipe lies in the fact that you can buy the pastry balls already made and ready for filling. You can find them in any supermarket. Therefore, this recipe is about the pastry cream only. In fact, it is an unconventional recipe because it excludes the use of eggs, but I can assure you that it tastes fantastic.
Ingredients
- 100 gPastry ball
Pastry Cream
- 1 cupSugar
- 1 teaspoonLemon zest
- 1 pinchVanilla
- 1/2 cupFlour
- 2 spoonsButter
- 4 cupsMilk
Decoration
- 1 spoonPowdered sugar
Preparation of Choux à la Crème
First of all, start by melting the butter in a saucepan on low heat. Once done, pour the milk, the sugar, the lemon zest, the pinch of vanilla and finally the flour over the melted butter. Stir well the mixture with a whisk to incorporate all ingredients together and to avoid lumps. Keep whisking until the thickening of the cream, which will take approximately 8 minutes.
Once thick, leave the pastry cream to cool down. Then, place a plastic wrap on the cream avoiding its exposure to air. It will prevent the cream from drying out and forming a skin on the surface. Refrigerate it for a couple of hours.
The process of cooling down the pastry cream is an essential step for the success of the cream puffs.
Meanwhile, you can proceed by cutting with a knife the top of each pastry ball.
Now that the pastry cream has become cold, fill each dough ball with the desired quantity of cream using a teaspoon or a piping bag and closing the top at the end.
Finally, sift a spoon of powdered sugar on top of the Choux à la Crème to decorate them.
Advice
– Choux à la Crème are tastier when served cold and fresh.
– You can conserve them refrigerated for a couple of days. However, the dough will lose its crunchiness over time.
I hope you enjoyed the Choux à la Crème recipe.
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Very detailed and great recipe. Thank you
Thank you 🙂
These look delicious! It seems quite easy to try and make, thanks for sharing x
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This recipe is making my mouth water! I love the sound of the cream and your pictures are fab too x
Thank you. My sister is actually a professional photographer.
easy recipe that also will bring me back to my time studying in france? done and done! can’t wait to try this out
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Omg these look so delicious, I want some now! Thank you for sharing this recipe, maybe I should get baking in lockdown 🙂 x
It is very easy to prepare and definitely delicious. I hope you try it 🙂
wow, these look so delicious! I have never made anything like this before but I am tempted to make this recipe, great post
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I can literally feel the texture of these in my mouth! So yummy. I’d love to have a couple of these with a cuppa! x
Once you start you can never stop. Thank you:)
These look absolutely delicious. I’ve never tried to make anything like this before but I need to give this a go.
Thank you. I hope you like them when you try them out 🙂
Fantastic recipe! I’ve never heard of Choux a la creme but it looks delicious. And it sounded hard to make, but the recipe looks pretty simple. Something I gotta try out soon. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
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Yum! This looks amazing! I’ve never had this before and I think the closest I’ve tried is profiteroles/cream puffs. I’ll pin for later. Thanks for sharing xx
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If you like profiteroles, then this recipe is perfect for you 🙂
This looks yummy! I love looking for recipes like this because I make them as a snack and don’t finish too quickly haha. Thank you so much for sharing!
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I love my puffs cold and delicious, though I often dip into the pastry cream just a touch too early. Dusted with powered sugar, cream puffs are heaven in a bite!
You’re definitely right. I love them fridge cold however sometimes I can’t resist them.