Profiteroles

Gordon Ramsay recipes Profiteroles with hot chocolate sauce recipe

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Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay

Date Published:
13/09/2007

Watch Gordon create these profiteroles

Gordon Ramsay and his brigade of amateur chefs served profiteroles with hot chocolate sauce to diners at the F Word restaurant

Makes 30 profiteroles

Ingredients

Choux pastry

  • 125ml milk
  • 200ml water
  • 150g plain flour
  • 1 tsp golden caster sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 4 medium eggs, lightly beaten

Chantilly cream

  • 1 ½ a vanilla pod, split
  • 300ml whipping cream
  • 1-2 tbsp icing sugar

Chocolate sauce

  • 200g good quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
  • 30g unsalted butter
  • 3 tbsp clear honey
  • 125ml full fat milk

Method: How to make profiteroles with hot chocolate sauce

1. Preheat the oven to 200˚C/Gas 6. Sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Place the milk, cold water, salt, sugar into a pan and set over a low heat. Once the sugar and salt has dissolved add the butter. Once the butter has melted, bring to a rolling boil. Turn off the heat then tip in the flour and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon. As soon as the mixture starts to come away from the side of the pan, stop beating and tip onto a plate to cool.

2. Return the mixture to the pan, then gradually beat in the eggs, a little at a time, mixing well between each addition, until you have a smooth paste. (Alternatively, transfer the mix to an electric mixer and gradually add the eggs while the mixer is running on a low setting).

3. Line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper. Spoon the choux pastry into a piping bag fitted with a large plain nozzle (about 1.5cm in diameter). Pipe a small blob of the pastry mix under each corner of the greaseproof to keep the paper in place. Now pipe about 20 walnut-sized balls onto the baking sheet, spaced well apart. Level the peaked tops with the tip of a wet finger then bake for 18-20 minutes until well risen and golden brown.

4. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before filling.

5. For the Chantilly cream scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod into a large mixing bowl. Add the cream, and icing sugar then whisk together until the consistency of a soft meringue with floppy peaks. Spoon the cream into a clean piping bag, fitted with a small plain nozzle. Pierce the base of a choux bun with the tip of the nozzle and pipe in the cream. Repeat with the remaining choux buns.

6. For the chocolate sauce, break the chocolate into small pieces in a heatproof bowl. Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water and heat. Add the butter and honey stirring from time to time, until the chocolate begins to melt. Gradually whisk in the milk until you have a smooth sauce and warm through. Serve the cream-filled profiteroles with the hot chocolate sauce drizzled over.

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  1. I have noticed with all of Gordon's recipes you must follow the recipe exactly for great results. All of the Gordon R. recipes I have tried have been excellent and they look and taste like they were much more difficult than they actually were. If you want to create a special meal look no further than a Gordon R. cook book.
    Posted by j.marten on 13/01/2010 20:31:44
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  2. Made it several times and always were amazing
    Posted by sama on 02/01/2010 22:17:44
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  3. followed profiteroles recipe. easy 2 understand and follow.
    Posted by caroline on 23/12/2009 23:42:02
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  4. i love all your recipes we watch all your showes everyday
    Posted by krissi saarinen on 23/10/2009 22:47:53
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  5. grats to those choux pastries which rise. I think that the pastry deflate because the choux pastry batter is too wet and not thick enough it should be able to form stiff peaks if not you will know that the batter is too wet. I added 2 eggs instead of 4 and it still works=)
    Posted by kekster on 17/10/2009 17:13:24
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  6. Cannot wait to try this recipe gord!
    Posted by Blackcat on 30/07/2009 18:00:19
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  7. This recipe does not work the mixture ends up to runny and when its unequal
    Posted by Tashababy33 on 30/05/2009 18:01:20
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  8. i love perfiterolls so much i just had to make some myself. they are the best ones i have ever tasted in my life.
    Posted by alex who loves perfiterolls on 01/05/2009 12:07:21
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  9. i love your profiteroles they were delishious
    Posted by matt^.^foodlover on 01/05/2009 12:06:08
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  10. Is it me or the written instructions are different form what he does on the video?i.e. he puts the butter before the salt and sugar? in the recipe only says take it off the heat before putting the flour.. doesn't mention about putting it back on the heat.. Im confused!
    Posted by George on 07/03/2009 16:22:01
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  11. The day before - yes, put them om dry place.
    Posted by Janne the swede on 31/01/2009 19:45:20
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  12. thank you very much for your recepies....I tried profiterol recepie.....was nice...
    Posted by kiymetalpman on 19/01/2009 17:53:17
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  13. I want to make a profiterole tower as a dessert for my daughters wedding. Can they be made the day before and filled with cream on the morning of the wedding?
    Posted by Elaine on 15/01/2009 20:36:24
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  14. Turn the oven out and put the profiteroles back in the oven after you have pierced them. it dries them out quicker so they dont go flat
    Posted by Michelle on 31/12/2008 10:41:27
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  15. you need to bake at least 20 to 30 depends on your sizes.
    Posted by Afruza on 20/12/2008 22:38:19
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  16. Maybe try piercing the side of each one to let out the steam, then cool them on a wire rack.
    Posted by Mrs Bisset on 20/12/2008 15:53:14
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  17. Does this recipe make 20 or 30 profiteroles? You have stated both amounts and now I am confused!!
    Posted by profiteroles on 20/11/2008 08:33:02
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  18. Hi I tried this twice, very nice but my pastry rises well but collapses after I remove from the oven. Anyone know why? thanks
    Posted by mazen K on 21/10/2008 20:55:43
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