"The sacrifice of today is the success of tomorrow"
And after giving us a wonderful walk by the Trovehallerne market in Copenhagen, where we have already crushed everything, like a little dessert? We are going to take us a few delicious petit caramelized choux and are going to form this beautiful Tower.
When I did it, my son told me that he had to have gone to a TV cooking competition because he was perfect, lol, but on TV, nothing is easy.
The pasta choux It has always been traditional in my house. It is the things that my mother has always embroidered and I have been very lucky to have a good teacher. Since smaller I learned them to make and my friends sucked the toes when each year celebrating my birthday and put purple petit choux filled with creams with different flavours.
It is said that the Croquembouche (do not confuse with Saint Honoré) was popularized by the pastry chef and French chef known as the architect of the kitchen, Antoine Carême (1784-1833), offering it at a wedding and setting as well as a tradition, but there is no certainty that the originator of the recipe.
The recipe that I present today is a mixture of several I've used at various times: Thomas Keller, Paco Torreblanca and my mother is that I like most of all. My son love vanilla and I decided to form the pyramid with them to celebrate the Holy of my mother. I bring them to you, and I assure you, requires technique and patience, but... you get! And to top it off, this prescription participated in the challenge of cooking channel which is Cook for less than five euros a recipe for two or four people... amazing, isn't it? Look how well do so.
For the pasta choux:
- 500 gr of milk €0.25
- 250 g of butter €1.20
- 5 g of salt €0.01
- 275 g of flour sifted €0.12
- 20 g of sugar (optional because this mass can make sugar-free)
- between 500 and 550 g eggs (in my case I used 9 large eggs which weighed 515 gr) €0.89
For the pastry cream:
- 4 egg yolks €0.30
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract €0.15
- 110 gr of sugar €0.09
- 85 gr Crème Patissière or mixture of vanilla custard (usually cornstarch is used and if you want you can use it, but I prefer to enrich the cream in this way and not missed the opportunity to bring more flavor and color) €0.74
- 550 gr of milk €0.30
- 25 g butter diced €0.12
For the caramel:
- 800 g of sugar €0.66
- 280 ml water €0.03
Total € 4.86 that among the 4 proposed commensal, is € 1.22 per serving, that is baratísimo! Here the secret is in the labour force, technique and patience.
Directions
1 start with the small cabbage: prepare different trays of oven with baking paper or plant and spray anti-stick or greased with a little butter. I use trays that I have to bake cookies and I have several prepared at the same time. Book
2. prepare a manga pastry tip and book.
3 place in the electric mixer mix attachment (it is a blade similar to a T but above all it is important not to mix with a whisk if possible) and book.
4. in a saucepan put the milk, butter, sugar (if opt for add it) and the petit choux salt and heat to medium temperature. Be careful not to leave it to very high temperature since it boiled, and part of the milk of the ladle would evaporate, and need it all our dough. Move with the help of a wooden spoon until the butter is melted. The time that elapses until the butter melts will depend on temperature of butter and milk (if it was fridge or not) when you have used it. It is important that cooking time check it when the butter is melted.
5. once butter is melted, turn the heat to medium-high until it boils. Then remove from the heat and add the flour in the form of rain.
6. continue moving with a few rods for two minutes or until the flour is well incorporated.
7 return to the fire temperature medium and continue stirring with wooden spoon or a rod for a couple of minutes more until dough separates from the saucepan. The dough will look soft and glossy but not dry.
8. immediately move dough to a bowl of the electric mixer and begin to beat on low speed for 30 seconds.
9 gradually start adding eggs one to one. Beat well to integrate fully into the dough before adding the next egg. Continue adding eggs until the dough is off of the walls of the bowl. The number of eggs is never accurate because it depends on the humidity of the mass, so we must be attentive to the moment in which the mass off the bowl. At that time we will stop add eggs.
10 upload speed and beat for half a minute more. The dough should have a creamy consistency and form soft peaks when the plow is raised.
11 fill a glass with water and reserve.
12 move the dough to sleeve pastry and let cool.
13. once the dough is cooled to form small balls with our manga pastry. If a peak above slightly wet the tip of a finger in the glass of water and touch the surface of the ball to remove the beak and smoothing. If we do not wet the finger in water, us it will stick to the mass and the surface will not be uniform. Form approximately 6 rows of 6 balls on each cookie. In total, more than 100. It is important that all the balls are the same. To my I like tiny even if it means more work. If you do them very large when they are stuffed weigh much and our Tower will not withstand the weight.
14 Bake at 200 degrees in the oven mode air turbine for 20-25 minutes. If we don't have turbine will heat up and down, but in that case will have to be aware of them in the first batch to find out how many minutes we need to be ready.
15. While the petit choux of baking in the oven, we will prepare the pastelera crema vanilla. In bowl of electric mixer prepared with sticks, put the egg yolks and vanilla. Beat on medium for 1 minute speed.
16 slow down to a minimum and gradually add sugar. Increase speed and beat for two minutes. Down with a spatula that has been on the walls of the bowl and beat on medium for another three minutes speed again. Lift rods mixture should form small mounds.
17 return to start the mixer on low speed. Add the Crème Patissière and beat for one minute. Down with a spatula that has been pasted on the walls well moving background.
18 return to start-up the mixer to low speed and gradually add milk. Beat for one minute. Download which has been pasted on the walls with the help of a spatula, and beat on low speed for another minute more.
19 move the mixture to a saucepan and boil over medium heat until the cream begins to thicken. Beat with rods in a circular motion around the Pan taking care that the cream will not burn. Once the cream has bubbles on the surface move without stop and cook for five minutes until the cream is well thick. Remove from the heat.
20 pass the cream through a fine sieve to remove small lumps that have been left.
21 fill cold water sink a few inches (you can even put ice). Carefully place the bowl of cream inside that water does not wet the inside.
22 continue beating cream with rods for a few minutes to cool the cream a little. Then add the diced butter in twice.
23 pass the cream to a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. The plastic wrap should touch surface that does not form a crust of hard cream. Leave to cool.
24. Meanwhile, we will have taken the petit choux in the oven after 20-25 minutes, and let them cool completely before filling them.
25. with the help of a number 1 nozzle or with a wooden skewer, make small incisions on the bottom of the petit choux so that we can then fill with ease.
26. When is the cream completely cool, come back to beat a few rods to recover its creaminess.
27 put cream in a sleeve pastry nozzle preferably fill (are some special nozzles that have very long mouth to be able to penetrate into the petit choux). Begin to fill all the petits choux.
28. prepare a cone mounting. To cover a Cork (porexpan) with silpat or baking paper cone. This paper will have the function that candy will not stick to the cone, which serves as a "blocker". We adhere it to the cone using paper zeal. We take care of that zeal paper is inside because if we let it out, with the heat of candy will it melt and eat it literally our Petit choux. They even sell special kits for mounting the cone, but I I workaround with a cork lined with a silpat finite cone.
29. when have finished filling the petit choux, do the candy. To do this, place the ingredients of the candy in a pan and caramelize for about 15-20 minutes until the caramel is golden and shiny. You have to reach the temperature of 160 degrees and then remove it from fire so it won't burn. If it burns, it would have to start from scratch because bitter right away.
30 and now, we start with the installation of the tower. In my case, I made a horizontal base of petit choux on which I placed the pyramid, but you can use a cardboard tray or a base of pastry which is more convenient to place the Tower of petit choux and it is balanced. We are bathing the petit choux in Candy Gold on two sides so we can paste it one to another on the cone. Then dip in candy other petit choux and paste it with we have on the cone. It will have to work with each other to complete a row, and then start another. Thus ending the full cone.
31 cool at least 30 minutes candy before removing cone. It must be done carefully so not to break the pyramid. Ideally, that you will help a person between the two, one remove the cone below, and the other hold the croquembouche.
32 note that tower is kept in balance, but I you would not take much to present it. Be careful also with the heat and humidity, that makes you dilate and slide. Moreover, ready and... surprise your guests!
- Level of difficulty: high
- Preparation time: 2 hours approximately
- Seating: 4 persons
- Used as base a sheet of rolled puff pastry by cutting the diameter of our cone of Cork.
- Use a frosting instead of candy. The effect is just as nice although you will lose the crispy. It is a good solution for the summer and have a very humid climate.
- Fill your favorite cream, perfuming this same cream with lemon, Orange, strawberry, coffee, chocolate...
- With this delicate dessert I am going to recommend a sweet Muscatel wine. Zumbral Bodegas Dimobe made 100% from grapes Moscatel de Alejandría It is a type of grape that occurs in the Axarquía malagueña. A bottle that will accompany many desktops. Your price €13.80. Serve it cold.
Hello Loleta, that great discovery today! The recipe and your blog I loved... Really a lot!
I leave the link to mine so you can see the little things I do. A greeting
Vanesa thank you very much! Right now echo you a look that is sure is great. A greeting!
Spectacular and delicious! And above all a great job of explanation
I'm super fan of markets... in my hometown are a fundamental social pillar and that has marked me!
Lo.dicho, good luck and congratulations!
Thanks Ivan! For me, the markets I have become must-see whenever I go out: colours, ingredients, flavours, products, etc. I can be! Thanks again!
Spectacular post and recipe!
Congratulations and good luck... seeing this, it is scary to participate:-S
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Thank you Manu. But it is not so!. Patience and is now. The truth is that you not me I thought as it was. The petit choux them I have great affection but it had never made a tower as says my small, so it is already made. We continue by networks and hopefully soon we can match at any Soiree and meet us in person!
that desire to have make a croquembouche and with this explanation, I think I'm going to dare pair my godson christening, the only question I have is, do candy not solidifies while these wetting and riding the profiteroles? congratulations on your blog and thank you for your posts
Hello Daniel,
Thank you very much for your comment. You have to dare because it is much easier than it seems. Patience and tranquility and is already so cheer up!. Regarding your question, the caramel cools but if you'll surely not must cool as much as to not stick. In any case if it happens to you, simply return it to high heat a few seconds and then returns to liquid, but watch out that you do not burn. You'll see that once you start is systematic. That Yes cuidadín with the fingers and the hot caramel. Thank you again for being here. A greeting.
Well, well, what discovery just did with you. I've found by chance and I'm walking I visit. Choux dough I love, though often more salty than sweet, and you have been super the croquembouche. A kiss
Monie
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Hello Monie, maybe give me a joy. Thank you very much for coming and I hope you stay here. I promise Curran me recipes that you might! Lola Kiss
Wonderful, certainly have wonderful hands, congratulations.
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As Conchi thanks. So happy to dismiss the day, but really is not so difficult. A kiss and thanks again.
I finally have a moment to enter to see this spectacle of color and flavor and incidentally, this work of engineering hehe. I think it is a wonderful dessert to of course, you have embroidered it :-) What good is that inherit the family traditions. I love it! A strong Kiss!
Hi Bea, thank you very much for your comment that I always glad day. It is true that it requires technical, but if you've seen him do as many times as I my mother, not give him any merit. That Yes, it is good to rage. A kissed beauty.
Hello loleta! It is the first time that I am a recipe from your blog, in my case has been a failure of recipe pasta choux. First in the list of ingredients not listed the amount of sugar that should be added (I have consulted it on other websites). After adding the milk, ´mantequilla... flour in the Pan, I proceeded to incorporate the eggs off the heat, mixing each time was more liquid and not thicker. So I've had to add more flour, in the end the result... I had to throw everything away because there was no way that the mass takes the texture right (or cold). I don't know really I did it wrong. Greeting!
Hello Natalia,
I feel very much that has not left you the first recipe, but I encourage you to repeat it. My recipe has no sugar in the dough, so you should not have added, or course, add more flour than the recipe calls for. If you want to add a bit of sugar can do it but only about 15 g. If you follow the step by step recipe should leave you with those amounts. I suggest to you that the next time if questions arise you doing a recipe, you contact me before you get with it, that I delighted to help you and so we can clarify your doubts and you won't have to waste nothing. In any case, the pasta choux is the most difficult thing in the kitchen, so it is advisable to see her make before you get with it. There are a lot of videos, and Cattail communities on the internet where you can see how, so I encourage you to that win the battle to pasta choux and animes you to repeat it. A greeting, and hope you continue here with me!
Thank you for answering Loleta, of course that I will return it to try! regarding the sugar does not mention it in the ingredients, but when you say how to make the recipe, hence my confusion. Already I will inform you of my progress with the paste choux. Of course I will continue the bolg, do it for some time and will encourage me to try new dishes. A KISS.)
Thank you Natalia, and anything I say do vale? that I'll help in any way possible. I'm going to modify the recipe so there is no confusion. A kiss and good Sunday afternoon!
This majestic dessert has always caught my attention, I would love to try it, but I see it so complicated that for pleasure that I like to cook I do not dare xd
Well, don't suffer that it's just a matter of patience. Pre- cream in advance. Make the Petites choux and keep them a can with an anti-moisture sachet, and the next day you mount it. You just have to be patient, you really don't need anything else. If you cheer up anything you need, you tell me, okay? A hug and thank you for writing ?