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Profiteroles recipe with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce

a French girl "cuisine"
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 80 gr. of butter 0.7 cup or 2.85 oz.
  • 25 cl. of water 1 cup or 8.3 oz.
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 150 gr. of flour 1.15 cup or 5.35 oz.
  • 4 eggs
  • 200 gr. of dark chocolate
  • 250 ml. of cream
  • 1 l. of vanilla ice cream

Instructions
 

  • Prepare all ingredients and preheat oven to 200°C (400°C).
  • Dice butter. Bring to a boil water, sugar and butter in a medium saucepan.
  • Remove from the heat and add flour all at once.
  • Stir quickly and heat few seconds to obtain a ball not gripping.
  • Pour mixture in a mixing bowl. Add first egg and mix to obtain a paste, second egg and stir, third egg and mix and finaly the last egg and mix.
  • Fill in your pastry bag with the choux paste.
  • Put a greaseproof paper on a baking tray. Make your choux.

  • Bake for 15 minutes and low down temperature to 180°C (350°F). Cook for another 10 minutes. Do not open your oven during baking process or your choux will not rise.
  • Remove from oven and leave to cool.
  • Dice chocolate. Add dark chocolate and cream in a little saucepan. Put in a larger saucepan filled with a bit of water to cook au bain marie (water bath).
  • Stir regularly to obtain your chocolate sauce.
  • Cut your choux in two parts.
  • Put a ball of ice cream in each choux and pour chocolate sauce over them.