recipes

Choux

Adapted from Claire Saffitz, Smitten Kitchen

Ingredients

• 1/2 c water (or mix with milk)
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tsp sugar
• 45g unsalted butter
• 67g flour
• 2 eggs

Steps

• Bring the water, salt, sugar, butter to a simmer
• Add flour, stirring aggressively until it transforms (a minute or two?)
• Set aside, cool a bit
• Beat eggs, add them to the paste, whisk aggressively until it comes together, switch from whisk back to spoon/spatula
• Pipe it onto a tray
• Use the leftover beaten egg with some milk to make an egg wash. Apply with your fingers while pushing the peaks down
• Bake at 400 for 25-35 minutes

Variations

• Add 5 oz cheese into the batter, preferably with a fine grater

Tips / notes

• When adding cheese, it thickens a bit much which I think affected the texture (didn’t get the huge internal bubble)

Related: Whipped cream

• 1 c heavy cream or whipping cream
• 2 tbsp fine sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

References

• Claire Saffitz
• Smitten Kitchen
• Serious Eats
• Roy from Reddit