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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cream Puffs

A scrumptious pastry bite filled with fresh strawberry cream and topped with rich chocolate. Indulgent, but not difficult to make!
Servings16

Ingredients

Cream Puff Shells

  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter cut into chunks
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3 large eggs room temperature

For the Egg Wash

  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon water

Strawberry Cream Filling

  • 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin like Knox, found near Jell-o in the baking aisle
  • 4 teaspoons cold water
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar more or less to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup freeze-dried strawberries

Chocolate Ganache

  • 4 ounces by weight semi-sweet chocolate
  • 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

Instructions

Pastry

  • Preheat oven to 425°. Lightly grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper. Measure flour and set aside.
  • Bring butter, sugar, salt, and 3/4 cup water to a boil in a 3-qt. saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally. Immediately remove from heat, and quickly stir in flour mixture all at once. Return to heat and stir with a wooden spoon for 1 to 2 minutes, or until dough is smooth and forms a ball. (Don't short-change this step or your dough may be too soft to pipe.) Transfer dough to the bowl of an electric mixer, and let cool 5 minutes.
  • Add 3 eggs, 1 at a time, beating until mixture is smooth and glossy. Spoon dough into a pastry bag fitted with a 5/8-inch plain tip. Pipe dough onto prepared pans into 1 1/2-inch rounds (1 1/2 inches high). Smooth out peaks and round tops with a moistened finger.
  • Whisk together remaining 1 egg and 1 tsp. water. Brush tops of dough with egg mixture.
  • Bake at 425° for 5 minutes; reduce oven temperature to 375°, and bake 30 minutes or until puffy and golden brown. Turn oven off; let shells stand in closed oven 10 minutes. Remove from baking sheets to wire racks, and cool completely.

Strawberry Cream Filling

  • Place cold water in small bowl and sprinkle gelatin over it. Let sit for 5 minutes. While it's sitting, place heavy cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment or in a mixing bowl if using an electric beater. Once gelatin is set, place bowl in microwave and heat until gelatin turns to liquid, about 5-10 seconds.
  • Turn mixer on to start beating cream. Let it run for about 1 minute and then with the mixer on high, very slowly pour the melted gelatin in, in a small steady stream.
  • Continue beating cream until you reach medium-stiff peaks. Place berries in a plastic bag and crush with hands into small pieces. Add to whipped cream and beat for an additional 30 seconds until well mixed.
  • When pastry shells are completely full, fill using one of the methods outlined in blog post.

Ganache

  • Heat 1/2 cup heavy cream in microwave until steaming. Pour over chocolate in a heat safe bowl and let sit for 2-3 minutes. Whisk to combine until completely smooth. Sauce will be thinner when hot and thicken as it cools. Drizzle over tops of filled cream puffs, or dunk in bowl.
Author: Our Best Bites (Pate a choux from barbarabakes.com)
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