- Hi, I'm Alix, and this is my recipe
for chocolate strawberry cream puffs.
(upbeat music)
I love a good cream puff.
So this is a recipe I actually made around Valentine's Day,
because it's kind of like sexy.
So we have done a couple of different variations
of cream puffs.
So I decided to do just another variation of a cream puff.
And I thought it was really cute to do
a strawberries & cream puff.
But then take it a step further
with a chocolate strawberries & cream puff.
A lot of plays on words here.
So cream puffs can be a little bit tricky to make.
But if you break it down, it's really not too difficult.
It just takes some time, but it's Valentine's Day.
Well, it's not Valentine's Day,
but if it was Valentine's Day,
which is what this recipe was intended for,
then you should be willing
to put in a little extra time, right?
So I started by making this filling,
because it's gonna need to time to kind of cool.
So this is like a basic cream puff, like a custardy filling.
So this custard filling is egg yolks, heavy cream,
sugar, and corn starch.
So once the custard starts to thicken up,
we're gonna add in those chopped-up strawberries,
and then we're gonna transfer that into a bowl to cool.
I really wanted to use fresh strawberries
because I love fresh strawberries.
I just wanted it to be as close to like
a chocolate-covered strawberry would be,
just in kind of a new way.
But if strawberries are out of season
or you just don't want to use fresh strawberries,
you could also replace that with strawberry jam
and incorporate strawberry into the filling that way.
So now we're gonna move on to the choux pastry,
which I've done a lot of times here,
and it's always a workout.
So prepare yourself.
But again, you get your final workout in
before you go meet your date for Valentine's Day.
You just gotta get the method right.
You're gonna start on the heat,
melting down your butter and your water,
and once that's all liquefied,
you're gonna add in your flour and start to mix.
So you're gonna keep mixing this on the heat
until it's like a homogenized dough.
And then we're gonna transfer that off and add in vanilla
and one egg at a time.
So you want to add in the eggs slowly off the heat,
because you don't want the eggs to cook
while you're incorporating them into the dough.
It's gonna take some muscle power,
'cause you want to make sure
every time you're incorporating an egg
that the dough is fully mixed.
So don't move too fast here.
Just make sure you're taking your time,
make sure you're really incorporating the dough
and getting it as smooth as possible.
And there you have it.
So we're gonna transfer that into a piping bag.
I actually did it in a Ziploc bag and didn't even use a tip,
because it's a little more user-friendly,
because not everybody has access to a piping bag
and piping tips.
So you're gonna pipe that dough
onto your parchment-lined baking sheet
into kind of like a round thing.
If you want to, you can take a finger
and get it a little wet,
and dab down the tips of what you just piped,
and that will help you get a really round,
perfectly shaped cream puff.
And then we bake.
So once you put these in the oven, magic will happen.
They should puff up into these cute little
round balls of love, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Seriously though, you don't have to make this
on Valentine's Day.
You can make this whenever you want.
Not that I like ever do anything for Valentine's Day.
Not bitter or anything.
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And now the fun part.
We're gonna fill these little cream puff puffs
with our delicious strawberry custard filling.
You're gonna want to make sure your custard
is completely cooled down before you pipe it.
So first you're just gonna poke a little bit
of a hole in the bottom of the cream puff shell.
And then we're gonna take this even further
and dip the tops of these cream puffs
in some melted chocolate
so that they get their chocolate strawberry shell.
I'm the Puff Daddy of cream puffs.
I'm the Puff Mama.
Like Puff Daddy, but like Puff Mama.
- [Producer] All right.
- I'm Puff Mommy.
- [Crew] Puff Mommy?
Puff Mommy.
- Puff Mama.
Okay, who wants to take me on a date?