This week for Tuesdays With Dorie, Caroline of A Consuming Passion picked the Peppermint Cream Puff Ring. Now, I'm all for a challenge, and I have never made pate-a-choux, although I have wanted to, so I wasn't going to turn up my nose at the chance. However, H & J's housewarming party was coming up, and required mini-desserts, so I decided to adapt this recipe and just make cream puffs. And since everyone likes chocolate, and Dorie suggests it herself, I skipped the Paris-Brest mint cream and used her chocolate pastry cream recipe instead.
The pate-a-choux was far easier then I imagined it to be- a note to all you would be pastry chefs! Try it, it's not as hard as it seems, and once you master the basics you can do a LOT. the puffs behaved nicely in the oven. The pastry cream came together easily, and let me tell you, there are few things better in this world then chocolate pastry cream. The only thing that didn't exactly behave was my oven, which gave me a battle-scar of a burn when I took the puffs out. (bad oven! bad!).
my little puffs coming out of the oven
The ganache for the topping was easy to make, but made the whole thing a little too chocolatey. I felt I was covering up the silkyness of the cream and the lightness of the puff with it- I'll skip it for sure next time.
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Sorry to hear that you didn't care for the glaze. Great looking puffs
Ulrike from Küchenlatein
Definitely bad oven. And if the only thing you weren't a fan of was the glaze, I think you're pretty safe :)
A burn? Agh. At least it didn't dampen your spirits! I think the ganache is a little heavy at times, too - I imagine it to be so with chocolate cream...butit looks so goos! I think you did a great job!
Wow, look how fluffy! They look great! Sorry your oven misbheaved an burned your hand! ;)
what I wouldn't give for one of those right now! and you can just send me all the unused chocolate glaze ... mmm!
Maybe just a drizzle of the glaze next time...they look really pretty with it. Yours look beautiful...and worth the pain, right?
Mmm, chocolate pastry cream sounds delicious. I'm glad you enjoyed making this week's recipe.
The puffs look perfect. Kudos! I loved the glaze-but I'm a huge chocolate fan.
Your puffs look beautiful. Hope your burn heals soon. I still have the mark of a burn from one of the Dorie recipes a while back. Chocolate pastry cream! Sounds divine.
Looks very yummy!
Ooh, perfect for a party. Good idea!
Can Clementine please do a guest entry? I miss Clementine's corner.
Ovens have a mind of there own! Sorry to hear that you didn't care for the glaze but your puffs look beautiful!
I can never say no to chocolate glazed anything! Your puffs look fabulous!
your cream puffs look great! sorry about the battle wound ;)
Looks great! Hope you have plenty of ice packs and a healthy aloe vera plant (speaking as someone who somehow manages to bump into the oven rack edges far too often).
Your puffs look perfect; hoping your battle scar is healing nicely!
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