A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree.
Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, a choux pastry christmas tree. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook a choux pastry christmas tree using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree:
- {Prepare of For the choux pastry:.
- {Prepare of Water.
- {Prepare of Unsalted butter.
- {Prepare of Salt.
- {Make ready of Cake flour.
- {Make ready of to 3 Eggs.
- {Get of Pastry cream.
- {Prepare of whatever you like Decoration.
- {Take of Icing.
- {Prepare of Powdered sugar (for each color of icing).
- {Prepare of few drops Water.
- {Get of Food coloring.
Steps to make A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree:
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Combine the water, butter, and salt in a pan and heat..
- When the butter has melted and the water has come to a boil, take the pan off the heat and add the flour. Mix rapidly with a wooden spatula..
- Keep mixing until the dough comes cleanly off the pan, as shown here..
- Keep mixing over low heat, until the dough becomes loose and shiny..
- Take the pan off the heat. Beat 2 eggs and add to the pan in 4 batches, mixing well between additions until the egg is incorporated into the batter..
- If the dough is too stiff, beat the remaining egg and add it a little at a time until the dough drops very slowly off the spatula when lifted..
- Drop spoonfuls of the dough on a lined baking sheet, about 3 cm dome shapes. Dip the spoon in water each time..
- Brush the remaining beaten eggs on the puffs with a pastry brush. Preheat the oven at 200°C for 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to 180 °C and bake until the jagged edges on the surface are golden brown..
- Make the pastry cream to fill the puffs,. Cool the baked puffs..
- Slice into each puff 1/3 from the top with a knife. Spoon in the pastry cream..
- Make the icing. Add water to the powdered sugar drop by drop while mixing from the center, until it reaches a consistency that just slowly drops from a spoon when lifted. Color with the food coloring of your choice..
- Spread the surface of each cream puff with icing and stick together in a tree shape. Optionally, add cookies as decorations..
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