Puffs with custard & toffee sauce
Preparation Time: 2 - 3 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Serves: Makes about 16
Light and crispy, these treats will not last the day.
Ingredients
1 quantity choux pastry
Custard filling
500ml milk
80ml (65 g) sugar
45 m custard powder
15ml butter or margarine
3ml vanilla or lemon essence
125ml fresh cream
Toffee sauce
55g Bar One chocolate bars, coarsely chopped
60ml milk
Method
- Puffs: Place heaped teaspoonsful of choux pastry onto greased baking trays. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 180 °C and continue baking for about 15 minutes. Leave to cool in oven.
- Filling: Heat milk in a medium, heavy-based saucepan. Mix sugar and custard powder together. Add some of the heated milk to the custard mixture and mix well.
- Add to hot milk in saucepan. Boil until it starts to thicken, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and add butter and essence. Mix well and set aside to cool completely.
- Whip cream until soft peak stage and gently fold into cooled custard mixture, using a metal spoon. Fill puffs.
- Sauce: Place chocolate pieces and milk into a small, heavy-based saucepan and melt over medium heat. Stir constantly until chocolate is melted and sauce is smooth. Pour over puffs and serve immediately.
