Chocolate lightning bolts
The petisus, susos or profiteroles are made with the same base, the choux pastry. However, they all have different shapes and fillings, which make it delicious and very particular. Last day, we already taught you how to make choux pastry, so today we will focus on these chocolate lightning bolts.
These lightning bolts are usually filled with pastry cream or chocolate vanilla cream. This recipe, specifically, is filled with a somewhat thick pastry cream, so that it does not spread throughout the dessert.
Ingredients
- Choux pastry.
- Custard cream.
- Chocolate covering, white or black.
Preparation
First of all, we will have to perform the choux pastry. This is very easy to do, you just have to click on the link of the profiteroles, and follow step by step. When it is done, let it temper and place in a pastry bag with a star nozzle.
On the other hand, we will carry out the custard cream. We also made this recipe beforehand, so by clicking here, you can see the complete recipe for this cream to fill the chocolate lightning bolts.
When we have everything done, we will place small elongated portions of choux pastry on parchment paper on a baking sheet, and We will bake for about 20 min at 175 ºC. We will take them out and let them temper.
Finally, we will place the pastry cream in another sleeve, and we will fill each of the lightning bolts. Afterwards, we will melt the covering chocolate in the microwave, and we will pour it as irregular lines on them.
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Kilocalories per serving 478
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