Howdy folks hows it going welcome to my virgin kitchen today i'm going to show you how to
make some caramel choux buns aka profiteroles as requested by svajunas seikus they look
amazing right and trust me they taste gorgeous too so much so that they are actually pulling
me in right now so i'm glad i'm talking to you guys and I also want to have some fun
with you guys too and some of my youtube friends too you'll notice there's a little hashtag
down there that says 'deleBAKE' think of delegate and then change it to deleBAKE i'll tell you
a little bit about that at the end and I want you to get involved ok so hopefully you'll
wanna try out these choux pastry buns when you think of choux pastry don't think of shoes
think of these gorgeous things if you wanna have a go at making this hit pause on the
video now and write all the ingredients down this is how you do it.
First up in a saucepan you want to merge together the water and the butter so under a low flame
keep mixing it until the butter is all melted and merged in together and as soon as it starts
to bubble take that pan off the heat dump in your flour stir it through with a spatula
and it should start to form a nice sticky ball once it gets to that sticky ball stage
you want to put it back on the heat just for a minute to dry it out and then take that
pan off the heat again and let it cool just for 5 minutes with your pan nice and cooled
pour in one of your beaten eggs and mix it well together into that mixture you may feel
like you are scrambling eggs at first but just go with it and gradually add the remaining
eggs until you've got a nice thick mixture that's still a little bit manouverable spoon
small blobs of your choux pastry onto a greased baking tray well spread apart and then give
them a little brush of egg then whack them in the oven and you'll notice i've got a little
ramekin at the bottom of that to help generate steam.
So just like old school trains steam plays a massive part in this recipe so inside my
ramekin there was some water so as it got hot it would steam the choux pastry to help
it rise - good times.
Whilst the buns are baking whip up some double cream in a bowl until nice and thick then
mix in some vanilla and sugar then just keep it in the fridge until you need it later.
Now ive got to tell you when you first get those buns out of the oven they are going
to look amazing golden brown and risen and full of air but after a while it's gonna go
down the air is gonna go out of it naturally but it's gonna sag, a little bit like a witches
with your choux buns fully cooled flip them over and make a little incision in the bottom
of them using a sharp knife and just fill them with the double cream you whipped earlier
using a piping bag once they're all done just plonk in the fridge while we make a caramel
topping.
Our caramel topping was made by mixing together in another saucepan under a low flame, brown
sugar, milk and butter once it's all melted crank the heat up a little bit and it will
start to bubble away and this is good my friends it'll start to caramelise you wanna remove
that from the heat at that stage and add in your icing sugar mixing it all through until
it's fully blended and once it is that's the caramel topping all done.
Now before the grand finale it's time to lay down a recipe challenge to you i'm gonna deleBAKE
to you a recipe challenge baking so what I want you to do is bake your favourite sweet
/ savoury dessert and just take a picture of it or do a video response to this that'll
be amazing and hashtag it in your title deleBAKE just like I have easy peasy and lets get some
of my favourite youtube friends involved um, felicitaspizarro, frenchguycooking, the chiappas
and cooking with amber they you go theres four of them right there I want to see your
attempt guys send them back to me lets get some hashtag action going on tag me in there
aswell if you want to i'd love to see what you come up with - lets finish these buns
off.
So with our caramel topping nice and cooled I grabbed our gorgeous choux buns from the
fridge whacked them on a wire rack and began to drizzle over that caramel I let it settle
then grabbed some extra chocolate sauce with some zigzags on top and oh my goodness it
tasted good!
Oh my goodness guys for those of you that follow me on instagram you would have known
i'd described these as a firework taste explosion in your mouth and it is just that they are
so good so fresh very naughty make them eat them then go for a huge run and feel better
about yourself so I really hope you get involved in deleBAKING make it for yourself show me
what you do show my youtube friends what you do and then share it with your friends with
a challenge get them baking too - lets see what we can do!
Hashtag it up, oh my God i've got to go for a run see you next time.