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RECIPE: Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae Profiteroles
Strawberry Profiteroles

Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae Profiteroles

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Traditional profiteroles are cream puffs: little shells stuffed with pastry cream and drizzled with runny chocolate sauce.  Delicious.  But my version are made for summer: easy-as-pie homemade puffs, stuffed with bought strawberry ice cream (or you could go double-chocolate, or pistachio, or vanilla, or a traffic-light combination), doused in a super-thick dark chocolate sauce.  The best chocolate-covered strawberry meets ice cream sundae meets Parisian dessert you ever put in your mouth.  Bon app!

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Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae Profiteroles
serves 4

Strawberry ProfiterolesINGREDIENTS

  • ½ cup water
  • ½ stick unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • ½ cup unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • 1 pint strawberry ice cream (recommended: Haagen Dazs Five)
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 3.5 ounces 70% dark chocolate

PROCEDURE

Preheat the oven to 400°F.  In a saucepot over high heat, add the water and butter, sugar and salt.  Cover, and bring to a boil. Take the pan off the heat, and add in all the flour at once.  Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon until the flour absorbs all the water.  Return the pot to low heat, and continue stirring for 30 to 60 seconds, until the dough forms a ball, and pulls away from the sides of the pot. Turn the dough out into a medium bowl.  (Soak that pot now, thank me later!)  Add one egg, and stir vigorously with the wooden spoon until it is completely absorbed and the dough is smooth.  Repeat with the second egg.  The dough will be smooth and sticky. Use an ice cream scoop to make 4 equal mounds of dough on a Silpat-lined baking sheet.  Dip your finger in water, and pat down any rough edges that might burn in the oven.  Bake at 400°F for 10 minutes, then lower the heat to 350°F for another 40 minutes, until the profiterole shells are puffed, golden, and crisp.  Carefully remove the shells to a rack to cool, and gently puncture the bottom of each puff with a skewer to let any steam escape. When the profiteroles are completely cooled, take the ice cream out of the freezer to defrost. Make the chocolate sauce by whisking together the cream and chocolate over medium-low heat, until thick, shiny, and melted.  Use a serrated knife to slice each profiterole in half horizontally, then sandwich the shell around a big scoop of strawberry ice cream.  Pour chocolate sauce over the profiteroles, and eat greedily.

NOTE

If you want to thin out your chocolate sauce, add 1 tablespoon very hot water from the tap.  print this recipe
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Categories: 60 Minutes, Chocolate, Desserts, Easy, Eat, Frozen, Fruit, Pastry, Recipes, Vegetarian

4 Responses to Let Them Eat Candy

  1. Summer says:

    I just wanted to say how much I love your recipes/postings. I acutally didn’t know about your blog until I came over from Daily Candy, but I’ve been avidly following your postings on Serious Eats. It took me a second to put two and two together, but I am so excited to have found your blog! The francophile in me is thrilled!

  2. Kerry says:

    Hi Summer! I’m so glad you found the blog too! And thanks for following on SE. I hope you come back all the time!

  3. Bess says:

    I tried this recipe out the other day and had a lot of fun with it. I actually just blogged about my efforts. It’s not as easy as it looks!

    • Kerry says:

      Hi Bess! Please send a link to the blog post! I’d love to check it out–and hopefully see where it wasn’t so easy. I hope it was delicious though!

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