Choux pastry

Choux pastry is a cake from France. This cake is also known as eclairs. This cake has a soft outer texture, soft on the inside, and contains pastry cream. In the making process of choux pastry dough, it does not use any developer ingredients such as baking soda or baking powder. 

There are ingredients are used to make choux pastry :

• choux dough

1. 250 cc water
2. 90 gr butter
3. 1 tsp sugar
4. 1/2 tsp salt
5. 190 gr hard fluor
6. 4 pcs eggs

• pastry cream

1. 200 gr sugar
2. 1 ltr milk
3. 80 gr custard powder
4. 4 eggs

• choux pastry

1. choux
2. 400 gr pastry cream
3. 100 gr icing sugar

There are steps on how to make choux pastry :

Choux dough

- Boil butter, sugar, and salt with water (medium heat)

- Put in all flour immediately 

- Chill it in a bowl

- Mix it with a hand mixer

- Put in the egg

- Mix until not too thick but not too liquidy 

- Prepare piping bag and nozzle

- Put parchment paper on a baking tray

- Put choux paste half inside the piping bag

- Bake to 20-30 minutes in 200 celsius

 Pastry cream

- Boil milk and sugar (bubbling)

- Stir so it won't burn

different bowl

- 2 egg yolk and flour (whisk)

- If the milk is boiling, put it inside the egg yolk mixture slowly (1 ladle of milk)

In the first process of making choux pastry, the writer failed because the writer added the flour little by little. so that the dough does not turn out as expected. However, in the second process, the writer succeeded in making choux pastry.