Choux Buns

So I made pastry cream the other day, in 3 flavours, no less. Chocolate, vanilla and coffee. I wanted to try it in all 3 cream, but just as I have guessed, I could only use 1 flavour and still couldn't finish using up the cream. I chose the coffee cream and vanilla cream to fill my choux buns because I love coffee and I think they'll score well with the majority too.

(Makes about twelve 6cm puffs)

To make the topping

75g cake flour

70g sugar

60g unsalted butter

A pinch of salt

To make the choux buns 

200g milk

120g cake flour

90g unsalted butter

3 eggs

A pinch of salt

To make whipping cream

100 ml whipping cream

1 tbsp Icing sugar

To make Pastry cream

Pastry Cream

1. Preheat the oven at 220 degrees and line baking trays with baking paper. 

2. Beat the sugar, butter and salt together. 

3. Sift the flour over the mixture and fold to combine.

4. Roll the dough in between 2 baking paper.

5. Fridge for about 20 minutes. 

6. In the meantime, prepare the choux buns. Heat the butter, milk and salt over medium heat till the liquid boil.

7. Turn the heat to low and pour the flour all at once into the boiling mixture and cook for about 2-3 minutes more until the dough does not stick to the sides of the pan anymore.

8. Transfer to a mixer fitted with a paddle and beat for about a minute or 2.

9. Beat the eggs briefly and slowly add the eggs till you get a sticky mixture. 

10. Pipe into 6cm rounds.

11. Cut the topping using a 5cm cutter and place them on top of the choux paste.

12. Place the trays in the oven, turning the oven down to 200 degrees and bake for 20 minutes. 

13. Then turn the oven down to 160 and bake for another 20 minutes. 6 minutes before the 20 minutes is up, take buns out of the oven and poke with a skewer to release some steam and return the buns to the oven and bake for another 5 minutes. 

14. Leave them to cook on a rack.

15. Whip the cream with the icing sugar till medium peak. 

16. Cut the buns in half and fill the buns with pastry cream, then pipe whipping cream on top.

There you go, choux buns.

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