Cocoa Puffs Wchantilly Frosting Food

COCO PUFFS

Steps:

• 1. Boil water and butter together. Remove from heat and mix in the flour. Stir till dough forms into a ball and pulls away from the sides of the saucepan.
• 2. Mix in eggs one at a time, beat for a minutes before adding the next egg.
• 3. Scoop onto foil lined cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes then lower heat to 325 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes. Puffs should look dry. Remove from the oven and cool.
• 4. They should peel of the foil and tip over when gently nudged with a wooden spoon.
• 5. FILLING:
• 6. Combine all the ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl and beat with a mixer for 6 to 7 minutes on high.
• 7. With the tip of a piping bag poke into the puffs and fill with the chocolate pudding.
• 8. CHANTILLY FROSTING:
• 9. Combine milk, sugar, butter, egg yolks and vanilla in a saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly over medium heat for 12 minutes until mixture thickens.
• 10. Add vanilla, mix well. Chill for one hour.
• 11. Frost the puffs with the chantilly or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
• 12. Chill again, until ready to serve.

CHANTILLY FROSTING

Steps:

• Combine milk, sugar, egg yolks, butter and vanilla in the top portion of a double boiler, or in a bowl placed over a saucepan of boiling water.
• Cook over medium heat until thick, about 12 minutes, stirring constantly to keep the eggs from scrambling and the frosting from clumping.
• Remove from heat. Add coconut and/or nuts if desired. Cool, stirring occasionally, until thick enough to spread.
• Makes enough to frost a 9- by-13-inch cake or two 8-inch layers.

COCOA PUFFS

Steps:

• Choux Pastry:.
• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Put the water and butter in a saucepan and heat to boiling.
• Remove from heat, add the flour and stir until a ball of dough forms and pulls away from the side of the pan.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Scoop onto foil-lined baking sheet. I used a pastry bag with a wide tip to make little balls. Make them small, approximately an inch in diameter or so, you want these to be one or two bites per puff.
• Bake at 400 for 15 minutes, then lower the temperature to 325 and bake for 30 minutes, or until dry-looking. When done, they should easily be removed from the foil.
• Allow to cool completely. I left them in the (cold) oven overnight.
• Chocolate Pastry Cream Filling:.
• Put sugar, egg yolks, flour and vanilla into a saucepan and mix well.
• In a separate saucepan, and milk and butter and heat to scalding.
• Very slowly, add the milk mixture to the egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly.
• Cook on low heat, stirring, until the mixture reaches the boiling point.
• Cook 4 minutes longer, stirring constantly.
• Add the grated chocolate and cook one minute longer.
• Remove from heat, pour into a bowl and let cool, stirring occasionally.
• Once cool, press plastic wrap to the surface (to keep a skin from forming) and refrigerate until ready to use.
• Note that this filling is not very sweet, you may want to add more sugar to taste.
• Chantilly Frosting:.
• Combine milk, sugar, egg yolks, butter, vanilla and salt in a saucepan. Use a large saucepan as the mixture bubbles and spits during cooking.
• Cook on medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick, approximately 12 minutes.
• Remove from heat, and continue to stir until cool and thick.
• Use immediately or refrigerate for later use (it will become quite thick but still spreadable).
• Assembly:.
• Use the tip of a knife to make a small hole in the bottom of each pastry puff.
• Using a pastry bag, fill the puffs with the chocolate pastry cream filling.
• Frost the tops of the puffs with the chantilly frosting, My frosting was pretty thick, but I could still spread it with a butter knife.
• Enjoy! Store leftovers in the refrigerator but they won't last long!

COCOA PUFFS W/CHANTILLY FROSTING

Steps:

• Chantilly Frosting:.
• Combine milk, sugar, butter, egg yolks and vanilla.
• Cook stirring constantly, over medium heat for 12 minutes, until mixture thickens.
• Add vanilla extract.
• Chill 1 hour covered with a piece of plastic wrap directly on surface for proper spreading consistency.
• For Filling:.
• Combine all ingredients and beat with an electric mixer for 6-7 minutes on highest speed.
• For Choux:.
• Boil water and block of butter.
• Remove from heat, dump in flour.
• Stir until ball of dough forms and pulls away form the sides of saucepan.
• Mix in eggs one at a time, beat for 1 minute before adding the next.
• Scoop onto foiled cookie sheet.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes then lower heat to 325 degrees for 30-35 minute (Puffs should look dry. They should peel off the foil and tip over when nudged gently with a wooden spoon.)
• Cool and cut off tops with a serrated knife. Fill, put back tops, and sprinkle w/10x sugar, or frost with chantilly frosting.
• * To fill without cutting off the tops, spoon filling into a pastry bag fitted with a large round tip. Poke the tip trough the choux puff and squeeze the bag to fill the puff.

OLD-FASHIONED CREAM PUFFS WITH CHANTILLY CREAM FILLING

Steps:

• Combine water and butter in a heavy saucepan and place over medium heat. Cook until butter is melted and water comes to a boil.
• Add all the flour and salt.
• Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until mixture is smooth and leaves side of pan, forming a ball.
• Turn off heat and add first egg. Beat until well mixed. (You can use an electric mixer to beat in eggs.
• Continue adding eggs, one at a time, beating well after the addition of each egg.
• Add the egg white last.
• Beat until smooth.
• Cover lightly and let stand until cool.
• Spoon pastry into icing bag with a 1-inch plain piping tube attached and pipe into large puffs on a lightly-greased baking sheet. Do not place too close together.
• Bake in a preheated 450 degree oven for 8 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for 45 minutes longer or until dry.
• Do not under cook or they will "fall" and be unrecoverable.
• As soon as the puffs have been removed from the oven, make a slit in the side of each.
• Let cool thoroughly on wire racks.
• Filling: Whip the cream with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Add confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating gently. Add the brandy, a small amount at a time. Fold in the egg white gently, but thoroughly.
• Make a small hole in the side of each puff with the tip of a small knife.
• Pipe whipped cream into each puff.
• Dust generously with confectioners' sugar.

CHOCOLATE WHIPPED CREAM ANGEL FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• In a 1-1/2-qt. bowl, combine cream, cocoa and sugar; stir until well mixed. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight. With an electric mixer, beat the cream mixture on low speed until frothy; increase speed to high and beat until stiff. Using a serrated knife, split cake into two horizontal layers. With the tines of a fork, remove a portion from the cut sides of the top and bottom layers to form a tunnel when the layers are place together. Frost entire cake with remaining whipped cream. Chill. Cake may be prepared a day ahead.