Apparently, I’m a simple girl.I’ve never had a chocolate éclair, a cream puff, or any other fancy dancy pate a choux. (I never even saw this phrase till this week and I’m still utterly clueless to how it’s pronounced).
I’m not a big bread pastry type of gal in general. I’m very picky about my donuts, etc… Basically, it boils down to one thing… Sugar. I like sugar. And lots of it. This totally explains my love of milk chocolate. So, for this reason… the only donuts I’ll even entertain eating are Krispy Kreme… and you know why? Because it’s basically pure sugar.
Mmmm.. sugar.
So, initially I was worried about liking this recipe that was chosen by Caroline of A Consuming Passion for this week's Tuesdays with Dorie. But, when the actual dough came together super, super easy, I started to get excited. I halved the recipe and made éclairs and cream puffs.
Instead of making peppermint filling, I made Dorie's Chocolate Pastry Cream...which for me, turned out to be just like a chocolate pudding. (Is that what Pastry Cream is supposed to be?) And out of sheer laziness, instead of making a glaze... I opted to heat up a little crunchy nutella (world market brand) and spread over the top.
These turned out alright. Not my favorite thing, but at least now I've had one. And the recipe was actually super easy, although, I thought my arm was going to fall off whipping the pastry cream.
I'm not a fan of hazelnuts, but the chocolate cream looks delicious. Nice puffs!
ReplyDeleteYum! Yes, pastry cream is a pudding. French name vs. English name. (Doesn't pudding have a wonderful, down-home sound to it?)
ReplyDeleteHazelnuts reminds me of Nutella ... great looking puffs and eclairs
ReplyDeleteUlrike from Küchenlatein
Yum! Chocolate pastry cream! Delicious!
ReplyDeleteYour cream looks great! Pretty puffs!
ReplyDeleteHazelnuts sound wonderful with this. And I agree - give me sugar any day!
ReplyDeleteIt really is all about the sugar, isn't it? The pastry cream looks great.
ReplyDeleteLooks great. I did the chocolate pastry cream too.
ReplyDeleteI think the choux is pronounced as "shoe" but i have no clue how to say it all together. :)
I don't know how to say it either! I wonder where we can learn? anyway, yours look yummy - hazelnuts? oh yeah!
ReplyDeleteThat pastry cream sounds divine, I'll definitely have to try it. Hazelnuts must have been great with this too. Looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteNice looking puffs!
ReplyDeletewow, hazelnut topping? yum!
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ReplyDeletepate a choux is pronounced
ReplyDeletepat a shoe
i always thought that pudding usually does not contain egg and is a flavored milk mixture thickened with cornstarch;
ReplyDeletewhereas pastry cream is a custard which is a flavored milk or cream mixture that is thickened with egg yolk and as is the case with pastry cream, cornstarch.
to say pastry cream is a pudding would not be wrong.