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CHOCOLATE PROFITEROLES – by Deanna

Choux
20g butter
¼ cup water
¼ cup plain flour
1 egg

Pastry Cream (Crème Patissiere)
I cup milk
½ vanilla bean, split
3 egg yolks
1/3 cup caster sugar
2 tbsp cornflour

Topping
150 grams dark or milk chocolate,  roughly chopped
Preheat oven to 220 degrees (200 fan forced)
Line baking tray with baking paper
Combine water and butter in a saucepan, bring to the boil.  Add flour, and beat with a wooden spoon until the mixture comes away from the base and side of the saucepan, and forms a smooth ball.
Transfer mixture to a small bowl and beat in egg  with electric mixer until smooth and glossy.
Spoon mix into a piping bag fitted with a 1 cm plain tube (or can fill a ziplock baggie and cut the corner off).  Pipe small dollops of pastry 5 cm apart from eachother on tray.  Bake 7 minutes and then reduce oven to 180 degrees/160 fan forced.  Bake a further 10 minutes until profiteroles browned lightly and crisp.  Cut small slit in side of each profiterole with sharp knife.  Bake a further 5 minutes or until profiteroles dried out.  Cool.
Make pastry cream:
Bring milk and vanilla bean to the boil in small saucepan.  Discard vanilla bean.  Mix egg yolks, sugar and cornflour in small bowl with electric mixer until thick.  With motor still running add hot milk mixture gradually.  Return custard mixture to saucepan and stir over heat until boils and thickens.  Cool.
Spoon pastry cream into piping bag fitted with 1 cm plain tube (or use ziplock as mentioned before). Pipe pastry cream through cuts in profiteroles.  Place on tray and cover with melted chocolate.
Melt chocolate in heat proof bowl or double boiler over pan of simmering water.  When melted, drizzle profiteroles with melted chocolate
Note: can also drizzle with toffee instead of chocolate, and may fill profiteroles with whipped cream instead of making pastry cream.

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