Choux Shells with Chocolate Filling

Hi, dear bloggers and food lovers. I hope you’re having a great day. Today I’m going to share a sweet and tender dessert: choux pastries filled with a chewy, sweet chocolate filling. They’re simple and easy to make, and the texture is soft and melts in your mouth. I haven’t bought a piping tip yet, so I decided to make the choux pastries without one, and they turned out like this—they look like shells, don’t they? Okay, let’s get right to it.

Ingredients:

Choux Pastry:

• 250 ml water
• 120 grams margarine
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 150 grams all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs

Chocolate Filling:

• 250 ml milk
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp margarine
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 egg yolks
• a pinch of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Instructions:

Choux Pastry:

• Pour the water into a saucepan

• Add the margarine to it

• Add sugar to the saucepan

• Turn on the heat and melt all the ingredients until they come to a boil

• Turn off the heat, then add the all-purpose flour to the pan

• Stir all the ingredients until they form a dough

• Transfer the dough and let it cool

• Once cooled, beat the dough with a mixer and add the eggs one at a time

• Beat until the dough is well mixed and has a texture like this

• Transfer the dough to a piping bag

• Pipe the dough onto a baking sheet greased with margarine

• Place the dough in a preheated oven

• Bake the cream puffs for 30 minutes at 200°C

• Once they’ve risen and are fully baked, turn off the oven and let the cream puffs cool slowly inside the oven

• Set aside

Chocolate Filling:

• Pour the milk into a saucepan

• Add the sugar

• Add the margarine to the saucepan

• Add the cornstarch and cocoa powder

• Add the egg yolks, pinch of salt and vanilla extract to the mixture

• Mix all the ingredients together before turning on the heat

• Once well combined, turn on the heat and cook over low heat while stirring constantly

• Once the chocolate filling has thickened, turn off the heat, transfer the filling to a piping bag, and let the chocolate filling cool

• Once the choux pastries and chocolate filling have cooled, trim the edges of the choux pastries slightly

• Fill them with the chocolate filling

• The Choux Shells with Chocolate Filling are ready to eat