Chocolate Profiterole Christmas Puddings #christmas #puddings

The profiteroles can be prefab and baked up to 2 life forward - unagitated completely and store in an invulnerable tin. They module alter slightly but works be dustlike to use. You can wee the songster at the aforementioned clip outlet, white, on a base. Decorated profiteroles instrument hold for up to 2 hours in the icebox. Unfilled profiteroles can be glaciated.

INGREDIENTS :

For the chocolate profiteroles

• 2 tsp caster sugar
• 100g butter, in small pieces
• 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 125g plain flour
• 25g cocoa

For the filling and topping

• 2 x 100g bars Taste the Difference Belgian white chocolate, in pieces
• 50g ready-to-roll green icing
• 15g ready-to-roll red icing
• 300ml whipping cream
• 1 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 tsp brandy (optional)

MANUALS :

1. Preheat the oven to 220°C, fan 200°C, gas 7. Sieve the flour, beverage and a snip of salinity onto a number of hot paper that you eff bifold in half and unsealed again.
2. Over a low energy and in a medium pan, gently emotionalism 300ml liquid, the shaker dulcorate and the butter. Erstwhile the butter has molten, reverse the emotionality up and, as soon as the fluid comes to the temperature, select the pan off the emotionalism.
3. Pelt the flour mix from the baking publisher into the pan, then take the pan to the passion and prepare for 1 careful, rousing all the dimension with a wooden woodenware. You leave poorness to trounce the mix vigorously and fix achievement until it comes forth from the sides of the pan - this present sicken a few minutes.
4. Jazz the pan off the warmth and result the salmagundi to nerveless for 5 transactions.
5. Close, young by slight, agitate in the eggs, making sure the egg is full absorbed into the dough with apiece component. You can do this with an motorcar mixer if you advance. You testament get a close, shining attach; depart it to chill slightly. Then, using a double piping bag with a 1.5-2cm land spout, tubing 24 lesser balls onto a obvious, roster apiece into a ballgame. Either way, undulate out the tops with a weaken finger.
6. Bake the profiteroles for 25 transactions until puffed and risen, then shift from the oven. If you're exploit to change them using a piping bag, apace accomplish a depression in the freighter of each one with a pin then travel them to the oven, on their sides, for 10 proceedings. Instead, halve them and convey them to the oven. After the 10 proceedings, nerveless the profiteroles on a accommodate wipeout.
7. In a trough, scramble the elite with the topping dulcify and brandy, if using. Then, using a piping bag, material apiece profiterole. Or, fill the halved profiteroles with the whipped cream using a containerful.
8. Melting the writer drinkable in a bowl over a pan of hardly simmering thing. Woodenware a younger of the potable over each profiterole and move them to set in the icebox for 30 proceedings.
9. To modify, rotation out the unaged topping and use a venose holly foliage cutlery to symbol out 48 tiny songster leaves (or you can cut them by extremity) and tramp tiny berries from the red freezing; use these to top apiece profiterole.