Pâte à Choux – Choux Pastry Dough

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 2 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 9/16 cup All-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp Salt

• Dairy

  • 1 4 cup unsalted butter (1 half stick, unsalted

• Liquids

  • 1/2 cup Water

Found on eugeniekitchen.com

Description

Ingredients

• ¼ cup unsalted butter (1 half stick; 57 g)
• ½ cup water (120 ml)
• ½ teaspoon salt (2.5 g)
• ½ cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour (75 g)
• 2 eggs

Directions

• 1. In a thick bottom sauce pan, add in unsalted butter, salt, and water. Over medium heat, melt the butter completely stirring occasionally. As you noticed, pate a choux requires a lot of butter and salt. Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, sift flour and set aside. When the butter-water mixture starts to boil, remove the pan out of heat. Add flour all at once and with a wooden spoon, stir until mixed. When mixing, the flour starts to be cooked. So it’s important to add the flour immediately out of heat.
• 2. Back to the heat, cook until it starts to form a ball. Pate a choux works both with all-purpose flour and cake flour. Today I used all-purpose flour because the choux will be filled with heavy crème patissiere. By now there should a thin layer on the bottom. Out of heat, let cool for about 5 minutes.
• 3. Then crack the eggs into a bowl and with a whisk break the eggs. Now add half of the egg mixture into the sauce pan and stir until combined. The dough and the pan should be sufficiently cooled because the egg should not be cooked in the pan. Then add in the remaining egg and stir until thick and shiny. When shaken the batter should drop off the spoon and the lining should be smooth. This is Pate a choux, choux pastry dough.