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September 12, 2009 · 11 Comments

Eclairs or cream puffs or profiteroles – all are twists in basic choux buns

Pakistani & Desi· Uncategorized

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Some memories hang on forever like the taste of eclairs when we used to return from our monthly gorcery shopping. This is the time when I was 5-6 years old and lived with my parents and younger sister in Jeddah – KSA. I have still not forgotten that taste and to date also I simply love this dessert. It consist of basic pastry shell called choux (pronounced chauw) which is filled traditionally with pastry cream. Variations include ice-cream or fresh whipped cream. It is then drizzled with chocolate sauce. It has European origin and Eclairs and profiteroles just differ in shapes – former being oblong and later rounds. Cream puffs is just the American term for profiteroles. The shells themselves are neither sweet nor savory so they can also be filled with cooked mince meat [left over from lasagne for example] and topped with tomato sauce [from pizza]. Now thats a lot of education!
Talking about the recipe, it is very easy to make with few basic ingredients but a little tricky. You got to measure the ingredients accurately, cook the batter perfectly and then bake them carefully. Most important however is to never open the oven while they are baking. Keeping these things in mind, you should be on your way to making perfect profiteroles. The recipe doesnt need credition since almost all recipes you will find have same ingredients and proportions. Some people however use milk instead of water but I have not tried it personally.

Ingredients:

Choux Buns:
Water 1/2 cup
Butter 1/4 cup
Flour 1/2 cup
Eggs 2 larges
Vanilla essence few drops
Salt a pinch
Filling:
Fresh whipped cream or ice-cream
Chocolate sauce for drizzling
Method:
1. Place butter, water, salt and vanilla essence in a sauce pan.
2. Heat on medium heat, until it begins to boil.
3. Remove from heat, add flour immediately mixing with wooden spoon.
4. Return to heat. Keep on mixing until a ball forms and mixture comes in the center.
5.Turn off the heat. Let the mixture cool for 5 minutes.
6. Add one egg at a time, beating well after each addition with the spoon.
7. Continue until all the eggs have been added and incorporated.
8. At this point mixture should be well binded and shiny.
9. Drop spoonfuls on a greased baking tray. You can even pipe them with decorating bag.Make sure you leave enough space between them as they will expand.
10. Bake in a pre-heated oven at gas mark 6 for 15-20 minutes until puffed up and golden brown.
11. Turn off the oven and leave in oven only for 5 minutes. This is to make sure that they don’t fall off.
12. Cool and fill with desired filling and drizzle with chocolate sauce.

Note: To fill, either cut in half, put cream and sandwich together or inject cream (ideally they are hollow inside) with decorating bad fitted with round tip.

Profiteroles

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  1. Ayanna says

    September 14, 2009 at 11:26 am

    these look so YUM! I'm gonna ask my mom to make these at home!
    found ur blog through Kaibee… she showed it to me during our IT class… I fell in love with it!! =)

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  2. bakefresh says

    September 14, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    🙂 thanks Ayanna, let me know how they turned out

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  3. Farah says

    September 15, 2009 at 6:42 am

    Yes I tried them a lot of time with the same recpie & result is absolutly perfect… I have another option of filling for them like cream & mashed bananas . they r too simply good…. happy Baking Nadia:)

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  4. bakefresh says

    September 15, 2009 at 11:21 am

    Thanks Farah and yes mashed bananas and cream, nice idea, ur blog is lovely.

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  5. camelia says

    September 17, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Hello,

    We bumped into your blog and we really liked it – great recipes YUM YUM.
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  6. bush says

    September 20, 2009 at 8:14 am

    xcellent recipe!! they look absolutely yummy!

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  7. alisa says

    September 20, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    That looks awesome!My friends and I used to bake this and sell it to our classmates for our school project.Thanks for this post,it sure brings back wonderful memories.I followed your blog Nadia from the foodieblogroll and I'd love to guide our readers to your site if you won't mind.Just add your choice of foodista widget to this post and it's all set, Thanks! -Alisa@Foodista

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  8. Raidah says

    November 21, 2018 at 3:41 am

    These look so delicious yet easy to make. Would definitely try it out.

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    • bakefresh says

      November 21, 2018 at 11:13 am

      it is dear,do try

      Reply
  9. Amna says

    October 4, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    aoa. love your recipes plz add more salty ones… 1 thing you didn’t mentioned the temperature here…plz guide me what is 6 mark temperature. i use convection oven.

    Reply
    • bakefresh says

      October 19, 2020 at 7:52 am

      inshallah will update the recipe

      Reply

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