Profiteroles
Choux puffs filled with vanilla ice cream under hot chocolate sauce
Profiteroles are a Parisian brasserie dessert: small, crisp choux pastry puffs split and filled with vanilla ice cream, then drowned at the table in warm dark chocolate sauce. The contrast is the point: hot sauce, cold ice cream, crisp pastry. Choux is easier than it looks and needs no special tools, just a wooden spoon and some elbow grease. The puffs can be baked in the morning and filled at the last minute. Check your ice cream is free of gelatine. Chef's tip: bake the puffs until deep golden and firm; taking them out pale is the common mistake and they collapse as they cool.
- Total time
- 60 min
- Difficulty
- medium
- Serves
- 6
Ingredients
For the choux
For the sauce
To fill
Method
0/7 doneStep 1: Heat the oven to 400°F (350°F fan) and line a baking tray with baking paper.
Step 2: Heat ½ cup water, 1 ¾ oz butter, 1 tsp sugar and 1 pinch salt in a pan over a medium heat until the butter melts and the water boils. Tip in 2 ⅝ oz plain flour all at once and beat hard with a wooden spoon for 1–2 minutes, until a smooth ball forms that leaves the side of the pan.
4 minStep 3: Tip into a bowl and cool for 5 minutes. Beat in 2 eggs a little at a time until the dough is glossy and falls from the spoon in a thick V shape. You may not need the last spoonful.
Step 4: Pipe or spoon 18 walnut-sized mounds onto the tray, spaced well apart. Smooth any peaks with a wet finger.
Step 5: Bake for 20–25 minutes, without opening the door, until puffed, deep golden and hollow-sounding when tapped. Pierce each one at the side with a skewer and return to the switched-off oven for 5 minutes to dry out.
28 minStep 6: For the sauce, heat ¾ cup double cream and 1 tbsp golden syrup until steaming, pour over 5 ½ oz dark chocolate and stir until smooth and glossy.
Step 7: Split the cooled puffs, fill each with a small scoop of 2 cups vanilla ice cream and pile 3 in each bowl. Pour over the warm chocolate sauce and serve at once.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 470 kcal
- Protein
- 8 g
- Carbs
- 39 g
- Fat
- 32 g
- Fibre
- 2 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does profiteroles take?
- About 60 minutes in total: 30 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 6 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegetarian?
- Yes. It has no meat or fish.
- What can I use instead of butter?
- The same weight of ghee or coconut oil (for frying and most baking).
- What can I use instead of sugar?
- Caster sugar, same amount.
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