A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree
A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, a choux pastry christmas tree. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have a choux pastry christmas tree using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree:
  1. Take For the choux pastry:
  2. Take 100 ml Water
  3. Get 50 grams Unsalted butter
  4. Prepare 1 dash Salt
  5. Make ready 70 grams Cake flour
  6. Get 2 to 3 Eggs
  7. Prepare 1 Pastry cream
  8. Make ready 1 whatever you like Decoration
  9. Prepare Icing
  10. Make ready 20 grams Powdered sugar (for each color of icing)
  11. Prepare 1 few drops Water
  12. Make ready 1 Food coloring

Choux pastry, or pâte à choux, is a light pastry dough that contains only butter, water, flour and eggs. The high moisture content of the dough causes it to produce steam when cooked, which puffs the pastry. Choux pastry, also called pâte à choux ("pot-ah-SHOO"), is made with flour, butter, eggs, and water, although it can sometimes be Thus choux dough is cooked twice, once on the stovetop and again in the oven. (Or deep-fried, in the case of beignets.) This double cooking helps to produce the airy interior. Prepare the fruit filling by putting the raisins, glace peel and brandy or rum into a bowl and set aside to soak.

Steps to make A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree:
  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Combine the water, butter, and salt in a pan and heat.
  2. When the butter has melted and the water has come to a boil, take the pan off the heat and add the flour. Mix rapidly with a wooden spatula.
  3. Keep mixing until the dough comes cleanly off the pan, as shown here.
  4. Keep mixing over low heat, until the dough becomes loose and shiny.
  5. Take the pan off the heat. Beat 2 eggs and add to the pan in 4 batches, mixing well between additions until the egg is incorporated into the batter.
  6. If the dough is too stiff, beat the remaining egg and add it a little at a time until the dough drops very slowly off the spatula when lifted.
  7. Drop spoonfuls of the dough on a lined baking sheet, about 3 cm dome shapes. Dip the spoon in water each time.
  8. Brush the remaining beaten eggs on the puffs with a pastry brush. Preheat the oven at 200°C for 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to 180 °C and bake until the jagged edges on the surface are golden brown.
  9. Make the pastry cream to fill the puffs,. Cool the baked puffs.
  10. Slice into each puff 1/3 from the top with a knife. Spoon in the pastry cream.
  11. Make the icing. Add water to the powdered sugar drop by drop while mixing from the center, until it reaches a consistency that just slowly drops from a spoon when lifted. Color with the food coloring of your choice.
  12. Spread the surface of each cream puff with icing and stick together in a tree shape. Optionally, add cookies as decorations.

Choux pastry, also called pâte à choux ("pot-ah-SHOO"), is made with flour, butter, eggs, and water, although it can sometimes be Thus choux dough is cooked twice, once on the stovetop and again in the oven. (Or deep-fried, in the case of beignets.) This double cooking helps to produce the airy interior. Prepare the fruit filling by putting the raisins, glace peel and brandy or rum into a bowl and set aside to soak. Sift the flour onto a plate, sprinkle the sugar over the top. Choux Pastry and Kirsty Wark's Christmas Cake. Download Kirsty Wark's Christmas cake recipe.

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