Choux Puffs with Aged Gouda and Truffle Cream
Level
difficult
Cooking
46 min
Preparation
45 min
Ingredients
Servings
4
| Choux Pastry | |
Butter salted | 115 g |
Water | 120 ml |
Milk | 120 ml |
Salt | 1⁄4 tsp |
Fine Sugar | 2 tsp |
All-Purpose Flour | 125 g |
Eggs large, beaten | 4 |
| Truffle Cream Cheese | |
Butter softened | 1⁄2 cup |
Cream Cheese | 1⁄2 cup |
Parmesan Cheese | 1⁄4 cup |
Spring Onions sliced | 2 tbsp |
Garlic minced | 1 clove |
Truffle Oil or 10-12 shavings of fresh white truffle | 1⁄2 tsp |
| Topping | |
Aged Gouda | 50 g |
How to cook
Choux pastry:
- To make the choux pastry, mix butter, water and milk in a sauce pot. Set to simmer.
- Add flour, sugar and salt to the simmering mix. Stir consistently with a wooden spoon.
- After the flour forms into a dough ball, mash it hard with the wooden spoon for 4-6 mins. Allow to cool for 5 mins.
- Add eggs to the dough, one at a time. Mix and stir well until fully incorporated, before adding in the next egg.
- Once all the eggs have been added and the dough looks shiny, transfer it into a piping bag.
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and pipe small mounds of choux pastry about 1.5 inches in diameter.
- Pipe them at least 2 inches apart as they will swell up to twice their size!
- Bake in oven for 15-20 mins until they have puffed up.
- Reduce oven temperature to 170°C and then finish baking for another 10-15 mins until golden brown.
- Refrain from opening the oven too many times.
Truffle Cream Cheese:
- Combine butter, cream cheese, parmesan, spring onions, garlic and truffle oil/truffle slices.
- Slice open the choux pastry and fill it with the cream cheese mixture.
- Serve with a generous grating of aged gouda on top of each serving.
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