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Home-made Chou à la crème



Practically, we've been baking something each week.

This week, I decided to tackle "le chou à la crème",
also known in the U.S. as Cream Puff or Profiterole.



At first, I wasn't convinced to make this.
Because they seemed quite complicated and involved.

When I was going through recipes,
I realized it's actually not as elaborate as I had first thought.

I chose this chocolate eclair recipe.

Preparing to bake, I noticed there were some ingredients missing.
Cocoa powder and chocolate...

Instead of chocolate eclairs, I ended up making caramel cream puffs.

Making caramel from scratch was a bit intimidating.
Recipes warn you about splatters and sugar bubbling up and all that.
I thought the warnings were a bit dramatic, but one can never be too careful.

I didn't burn myself, but it was trying to make caramel.
In fact, I had to repeat the necessary processes three times.
First two times, the sugar wouldn't turn golden brown.
The third time is the charm.
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Pouring cream in the sugar mixture to make caramel sauce.
In the custard I made, I mixed the sauce to give it more flavor.

My puff dough was ready to go in to the oven.
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Before, my un-puffed puffs looked like this.

Then,

After.
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They doubled in size in the oven.
It was exciting to see them puff up012.gif
Inside was perfectly hollow like it should be.

I cut them in half to cut the custard in.
As a final touch, I drizzled the caramel on top of some,
and confectionner's sugar on the other.
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They looked fabulous and tasted heavenly053.gif
I'm more than ecstatic how they turned out.
If you wanna impress someone, Cream Puffs are the way to go049.gif

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by yas-unprescribed | 2010-05-09 09:59 | 食/Food

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