Choux Puffs with Aged Gouda and Truffle Cream

Name: Choux Puffs with Aged Gouda and Truffle Cream
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 46 min
Total time: 91 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Christmas
Ingredients: 115 g Butter; 120 ml Water; 120 ml Milk; 1/4 tsp Salt; 2 tsp Fine Sugar; 125 g All-Purpose Flour; 4 Eggs; 1/2 cup Butter; 1/2 cup Cream Cheese; 1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese; 2 Tbsp Spring Onions; 1 clove Garlic; 1/2 tsp Truffle Oil; 50 g Aged Gouda

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Level

difficult

Cooking

46 min

Preparation

45 min

Ingredients

Servings

Choux Pastry
Butter salted	115 g
Water	120 ml
Milk	120 ml
Salt	¹⁄₄ tsp
Fine Sugar	2 tsp
All-Purpose Flour	125 g
Eggs large, beaten	4
Truffle Cream Cheese
Butter softened	¹⁄₂ cup
Cream Cheese	¹⁄₂ cup
Parmesan Cheese	¹⁄₄ cup
Spring Onions sliced	2 tbsp
Garlic minced	1 clove
Truffle Oil or 10-12 shavings of fresh white truffle	¹⁄₂ tsp
Topping
Aged Gouda	50 g

How to cook

Choux pastry:

To make the choux pastry, mix butter, water and milk in a sauce pot. Set to simmer.
Add flour, sugar and salt to the simmering mix. Stir consistently with a wooden spoon.
After the flour forms into a dough ball, mash it hard with the wooden spoon for 4-6 mins. Allow to cool for 5 mins.
Add eggs to the dough, one at a time. Mix and stir well until fully incorporated, before adding in the next egg.
Once all the eggs have been added and the dough looks shiny, transfer it into a piping bag.
Preheat oven to 200°C.
Line a baking tray with baking paper and pipe small mounds of choux pastry about 1.5 inches in diameter.
Pipe them at least 2 inches apart as they will swell up to twice their size!
Bake in oven for 15-20 mins until they have puffed up.
Reduce oven temperature to 170°C and then finish baking for another 10-15 mins until golden brown.
Refrain from opening the oven too many times.

Truffle Cream Cheese:

Combine butter, cream cheese, parmesan, spring onions, garlic and truffle oil/truffle slices.
Slice open the choux pastry and fill it with the cream cheese mixture.
Serve with a generous grating of aged gouda on top of each serving.