Choux Buns

 With a terrible weather forecast and birding off the cards,😢 Inspired by Bake-off I decided to make my first ever attempt at Choux Pastry!! I bottled it on the piping front so went down the Choux Bun route rather than risk all on Eclairs.😁 

The first process is a bit weird bring water and butter to the boil then bung in the flour beating like mad, til it comes away from the sides of the pan amazingly this all went smoothly!!

Water ,Butter and Flour 

After this beat in three eggs until the mixture goes glossy seemed to be a bit of a mess but a good beating sorted it out!!

Looking Glossy with the eggs added

When the mixture cooled down loaded it into the Piping bag ,this was a bit of a messy job so called in my glamorous assistant Margie who held the bag and squeezed things down nicely. It became obvious after my first attempt that I wasn't up to the task of piping the Buns luckily Margie stepped up again and we had ten pretty smart looking blobs ready to go!!

Piped and ready for the oven my sad attempt back left😢

Within 10 mins at the high temp they had risen magnificently!!! Must have been the way Margie squeezed em out!!😜after another half an hour, the ovens off and they are left in with the door open to dry out completely.

Risen Buns!!

So to fill, Coffee flavoured whipped cream with icing sugar in it and a Plain Chocolate topping, this is where things went a bit tits up, melted the chocolate and butter together ,took it off the heat and stirred in the cream and icing sugar and it went all funny😖!! However Margie once again stepped up and saved the day with a good beating which seemed to turn things around, Hurrah!!. Piped the coffee cream in the middle, while Margie splurged the chocolate icing on the top half ,plopped em together and into the fridge to chill!!

The finished product !!