Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chocolate choux buns. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Choux pastry making is a wonderful skill to acquire. Start with these choux bun, and once you've mastered these, you can move onto making eclairs, profiteroles and choux crowns. Chocolate Choux Buns With Vanilla Cream Filling Making The Chocolate Topping Place the chocolate and butter in a bowl and put it over a pan of water.

Chocolate Choux Buns is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Chocolate Choux Buns is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chocolate choux buns using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Choux Buns:

1. Get For the choux pastry
2. Prepare 115 g plain flour
3. Take 200 ml Warm water
4. Make ready 85 g Butter
5. Make ready Pinch salt
6. Make ready 3 eggs
7. Get For the chocolate topping
8. Prepare 100 g milk chocolate
9. Take 25 g softened butter
10. Make ready 75 ml double cream
11. Get 1 tbsp sieved icing sugar
12. Prepare For the filling
13. Make ready 200 ml Double cream
14. Take 1-2 tbsp sugar

Add your flour in one go and take your pan off heat. Slowly simmer until the butter has melted. Here go chocolate cream puffs for your next baking project. Chocolate cream filling is coming soon.

Steps to make Chocolate Choux Buns:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees and flour a baking tray. Melt the butter in warm water and add pinch of salt then sieve plain flour in. Use silicone spatula to help cook out the flour. Allow to sit off the heat for five minutes.
2. Then beat one egg in at a time. Each time the pastry will loosen but eventually come together again. When all eggs are beaten into the mixture, use spatula to put into food bag (or piping bag). Squeeze mixture down bag, tie knot and cut corner of bag. Pipe out mixture into circle and continue with another layer on top without breaking the circle. Repeat 8-12 times.
3. Then bake for 20-25 minutes and pierce choux buns five minutes before end of cooking.
4. Turn off oven but leave door open a little and allow buns to rest for 15-30 mins before taking out of oven.
5. With a small amount of barely boiling water in a pan, put an ovenproof bowl on top and ensure it doesn't touch the water. Melt the milk chocolate and butter then remove from the heat and add sieved icing sugar and double cream. Mix well and allow to cool briefly before dunking the choux buns into the chocolate goodness. Allow to set in fridge.
6. Whisk up double cream and add 1-2 tbsp white sugar. Cut choux buns in half horizontally and pipe or spoon cream in.
7. Get the kettle on and prepare for sugar overload but it's definitely worth it. One half of these buns might be enough for normal people.

In Paris relatively new choux and eclair stores such as Odette and Popelini attract customers displaying decorated cream puffs with various fillings in their windows. Still it seems they use only one choux pastry for many different fillings. In a separate heavy based saucepan, melt the butter on a medium heat. Add the flour and stir to combine with a wooden spoon. Continue to stir until the mixture forms a smooth paste without any lumps and leaves the sides and base of the pan cleanly.

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