Bitter Sweet Cocoa Shortbread Cream Puffs
- 40 grams Salted butter
- 100 ml Hot water
- 1 pinch Sugar
- 50 grams White flour
- 10 grams Cocoa powder (unsweetened)
- 2 1/2 3 Egg (large)
- 50 grams Butter
- 30 grams Sugar
- 1 dash less than 1 tablespoon Egg (the leftover from the choux pastry shell)
- 80 grams Flour
- 20 grams Cocoa powder (unsweetened)
- 2 Egg yolk
- 50 grams Sugar
- 25 grams Plain flour
- 250 ml Milk
- 1 dash Vanilla oil
- 100 ml Heavy cream (whipped)
- Make the shortbread dough.
- Cream the butter and sugar and add the egg.
- Sift the flour and cocoa powder together, and fold into the butter mixture.
- Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Make the choux pastry shell.
- Sift the flour and cocoa powder together.
- Beat the eggs.
- In a sauce pan over medium heat, add the butter, hot water, and sugar.
- Bring it to a rapid boil.
- Turn off the heat and add the dry ingredients.
- Mix the liquid and dry ingredients until well incorporated.
- Once it becomes a lump, turn on the heat again and knead it briefly.
- Turn off the heat and gradually add the beaten eggs.
- It seems to separate at first, but gradually becomes easier to add the eggs.
- Mix well each time adding the eggs.
- The right consistency to stop adding the egg is when if you scoop it up with a spatula, the dough drops leaving a triangle stream on the spatula.
- Add the choux pastry dough into a piping bag and pipe it out into 3-4 cm circles.
- You will use about 5 g of shortbread dough per choux pastry shell.
- Roll out the dough in your palm into a ball, hold it in between plastic wrap and spread it into 5 cm circles.
- Cover the choux pastry dough with the shortbread dough.
- Start baking the dough at 200C.
- After 20 minutes, reduce heat to 160C and bake another 10 minutes.
- Bake it a total of 30 minutes.
- Do not open the oven door while baking!!
- After the dough is done cooking, leave the door closed and leave it as it is until the shells are cool and dry.
- Make the cream.
- In a microwave-safe container, add the egg and sugar and mix well.
- Add the flour and mix until smooth.
- Add the vanilla and milk.
- Microwave it for 4-5 minutes without plastic wrap.
- Take it out a few times and stir well each time.
- Place it on top of ice water to cool it down.
- Beat the heavy cream until firm peaks form and add the chilled custard cream.
- Mix well and the creme diplomat is done.
- Cool off the choux pastry shells, make a slit in the middle and add a lot of cream.
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/170244-bitter-sweet-cocoa-shortbread-cream-puffs (may not work)