Profiteroles with buttercream
Description
This recipe won’t take much time. Profiteroles with buttercream are easy and fairly quick to make. They’re a lovely choice for a holiday or buffet table—you get a lot, and they’re delicious. The profiterole decoration options in the recipe are optional—everything is up to your taste, just like adding chocolate to the buttercream. Treat this recipe as a base for making the profiteroles and the cream, and adapt it to your own taste.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Pour water and milk into a saucepan and heat almost to the boil. Add 100 grams of butter cut into pieces and melt the butter.
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Step 3
Place the sauté pan back on the heat, warm it, then add all the flour at once and mix vigorously.
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Step 4
The dough should gather into a ball and pull away from the sides of the bowl. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
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Step 5
For convenience, crack all the eggs required by the recipe into a glass or measuring cup.
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Step 6
Add the eggs to the dough one at a time, mixing each one in thoroughly. Add each next egg only after the previous one is fully incorporated.
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Step 7
Transfer the dough to a piping bag and pipe it onto a baking sheet, spacing portions apart.
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Step 8
Bake the profiteroles at 190 degrees for 30–35 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 160 degrees and bake for another 10 minutes.
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Step 9
While the profiteroles are baking, prepare the buttercream. To do this, first beat room-temperature butter until light and fluffy. Then gradually pour in sweetened condensed milk, which should also be at room temperature. Continue beating until fluffy.
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Step 10
Melt 50 grams of chocolate in short bursts in the microwave or over a double boiler.
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Step 11
Slightly cool the chocolate, then add it to the cream.
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Step 12
Whip the cream with the chocolate until smooth and combined.
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Step 13
Profiteroles can be filled with buttercream in two ways—by piercing them or by making a slit. This recipe uses the second method.
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Step 14
Fill the cooled profiteroles with buttercream.
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Step 15
Drizzle half of the profiteroles with melted white chocolate and sprinkle with almond flakes.
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Step 16
Drizzle the second half of the profiteroles with dark melted chocolate and sprinkle with chopped hazelnuts.
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Step 17
It turned out a lot of delicious profiteroles that will not go unnoticed on a festive or buffet table.