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- Poké Puffs, huh?
- Pika!
- Do you want one, Pikachu?
- [Pikachu] Pika Pika!
- There you go.
- [Ash] People can eat them too, right?
(Ash and Pikachu munching)
(dramatic music)
- Ash, what's the matter?
- They're great!
That's the yummiest thing I've ever eaten in my life!
- [Alvin] Hello there.
Welcome back to another episode of Anime with Alvin.
Today I'll be making the Poké Puffs from Pokémon.
A cream puff like confection
that supposedly raises the affection level
between a Pokémon and their trainer.
Huh.
I just noticed that my apron is wrinkled.
Cream puffs typically use pastry cream as a filling
but we thought it would be fun to make diplomat cream
which is pastry cream folded with whipped cream.
This lighter, fluffier version
should be palatable to any Pokémon,
no matter how small they may be.
So to first make pastry cream
I'm combining 600 grams of milk, 75 grams of sugar
and a pinch of salt in a medium pot until it boils.
In the same milk container
I'm combining 75 grams of milk, 30 grams of corn starch
and 25 grams of sugar to make a slurry.
And in another large bowl,
I'm combining 115 grams of sugar
with about 225 grams of eggs.
Yep, that's a lot of bowls.
Once our milk mixture starts to boil we turn off the heat
and slowly pour it into the egg mixture,
whisking the whole time to temper it.
Going a little bit at a time is important
so that we don't scramble our eggs.
Once the eggs and the hot milk have become good friends
we're gonna put them all back into the same pot
and bring that up to a boil while stirring constantly.
Then we're gonna add in the corn starch slurry
that we just made
and whisk vigorously for about a minute or so.
Whisking for the whole minute,
make sure that the cream is thickend
and that the corn starch is cooked out.
Once the pastry cream is smooth and thick
I'm gonna divide it into five equal portions
because we're making five flavors of Poké Puffs today.
I decided to go ahead
and give everybody an extra pinch of salt.
Guess I'm feeling pretty generous today.
For the sweet Poké Puff
I'm adding in 15 grams of unsalted butter
and two teaspoons of vanilla paste.
For the mint Poké Puff
I'm adding in 15 grams of unsalted butter
and half a teaspoon of mint extract.
For the citrus Poké Puff
I'm adding in 15 grams of unsalted butter,
a teaspoon of orange extract and the zest of an orange.
Ooh, I got orange zest in my mint.
I should not have eaten that.
That tastes like drinking orange juice
after you brush your teeth.
2 out of 10. Do not recommend.
For the mocha Poké Puff
I'm first dissolving two teaspoons of instant coffee
into 20 grams of melted butter so that it can bloom.
And then adding that in,
along with the teaspoon of vanilla paste.
And finally for the spice Poké Puff
I'm adding in 15 grams of unsalted butter,
a teaspoon of vanilla paste and a teaspoon of cinnamon.
Once all five bowls of pastry cream have been incorporated
and smoothed they get a little plastic wrap on top
to prevent a skin and set in the fridge to cool.
All right, onto the puff part of the Poké Puffs.
Cream puffs are often made from choux pastry.
So we're gonna start by combining 500 grams of water,
250 grams of unsalted butter,
about a tablespoon and a half of granulated sugar
and a teaspoon of kosher salt
in a medium pot until this boils.
The moment this starts boiling,
I'm turning off the heat
and adding in 250 grams of bread flour.
Huh, I guess we're making mashed potatoes.
You'll know when this part is ready
when there's a little bit of a fond
that develops in the bottom of the pan.
And once we start to see that
I'm transferring all this dough into a stand mixer
'cause typically you'd beat in the eggs
with the whisk at this point,
but in my experience that can get all slippery
and slidey and just not very fun.
So I like to let machinery do the work for me.
I'm slowly adding in about 450 grams of eggs.
How do you know when this is ready?
Great question.
Kendall likes to describe it
as the Dairy Queen cone tip swirl thing.
Honestly, I don't really know what that means
since I've never had Dairy Queen.
So, I just nod my head yes
and ask Kendall to come and check.
Once this has been Kendall approved,
I'm dividing this dough into three portions
for our sweet, mint and citrus Poké Puffs.
The sweet Poké Puff gets one teaspoon of strawberry extract
and a couple drops of red food coloring.
The mint Poké Puff gets a teaspoon of mint extract
and a couple drops of green food coloring.
And the citrus Poké Puff gets a teaspoon of orange extract
and a couple drops of orange food coloring.
Food coloring isn't necessary
since it doesn't affect the flavor of these
but I think it would make these more appealing
to any kind of Pokémon that wants to eat them.
For the mocha and spiced Poké Puffs
I'm making the same dough, just half of the previous size
except that this dough
gets an extra 25 grams of cocoa powder.
The mocha Poké Puff stays plain
while the spiced Poké Puff gets a half teaspoon
of cayenne powder.
Now that our five different choux batters are done
I'm putting them all into five pastry bags
because it's time to pipe.
I'm just gonna go ahead and give it a whirl.
You know, not the best.
After consulting Kendall and watching a master do her job,
I will try to do the same.
Oh, oh, oh God.
This, this looks a little, a little suspicious.
That's not a Poké Puff at all.
Stop, why are you zooming it?
Cut the video, cut the.
Then we go ahead and dip our fingers in water,
kind of bloop and push the top back in on every single puff.
This solves for any mishaps or mistakes from earlier.
Some of these might be beyond saving though.
But into a 375 degree oven they go.
Our Poké Puffs have puffed quite nicely.
Despite previous shenanigans.
I'm cutting one of each flavor in half
because they're ready to be filled.
But before we fill our puffs
we're gonna make the glazes
that give each Poké Puff its signature color and appeal.
For the spice Poké Puff we're making a dark chocolate glaze
with 3.5 ounces of heavy cream,
heated with 10 grams of light corn syrup for shine
and combined with six ounces of dark chocolate.
For the mocha Poké Puff
it's the same amount of light corn syrup and heavy cream
but with six ounces of milk chocolate instead.
And for the other three,
we're making a white chocolate glaze
with 12 ounces of white chocolate,
7.5 ounces of heavy cream and 20 grams of light corn syrup,
which we split into three batches for coloring.
I wanna dip the tops of the spice
and mocha Poké Puff in their respective glazes
and set onto a wire rack so that they can drip off and set.
Then we're gonna divide the white chocolate ganache glaze
into three equal portions.
Coloring with pink, orange
and sweet food coloring for the sweet, citrus
and mint Poké Puffs.
Gonna give these tops a dunk in their respective glazes
before they join their brethren on the tray.
Now that our five bowls of pastry cream have chilled
it's time to fold in an equal amount
of freshly whipped cream to each one.
This is what turns pastry cream into diplomat cream.
After some gentle folding it's now time to carefully pipe
a little dollop of each cream
into their respective flavored puffs.
You can't tell but we're actually really tired at this point
because we've made five different flavors of choux pastry,
five different flavors of pastry cream
and five different glazes.
So to see this all come together is pretty rewarding.
And for the perfect finish,
each Poké Puff gets their nice little colored hat
placed right on top.
And there you have it.
Sweet, mint, citrus, spice and mocha Poké Puffs.
Let's see if it was worth the effort.
I decided to go with the mocha
with chocolate choux pastry, coffee infused diplomat cream
and a milk chocolate glaze.
Cream puffs are good but this is really good.
Kendall decided to go with the citrus Poké Puff.
An orange choux pastry with a orange zest diplomat cream
with a white chocolate orange glaze.
Steve went for the sweet Poké Puff.
Strawberry choux pastry filled with a vanilla diplomat cream
and a white chocolate glaze.
I guess I can see why trainers in Pokémon
both enjoy eating these.
They're really colorful, fun to eat,
and most importantly, they taste great.
Now, where can I find some Pokémon to feed these to?
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