Mah Profiteroles

Yeah i'm back to baking today again in the kitchen.
This time i decided to make profiteroles. Profiteroles or cream puffs is one of my favourite pastries of all time. The recipe is quite simple too.

150 g flour
12ml of sugar (1 tbsp)
1ml salt (1/4 tsp)
60g butter
250ml water
4 eggs
1 beaten egg

Firstly heat the sugar, salt, butter and water in a heavy-bottomed pan under medium flame. When it starts boiling, leave the mixture to heat for 2 minutes. After that, add in the flour and lower the flame of the stove. Stir and cook it until the dough doesn't stick to your spatula or when you pinch it. Next, remove the dough and place it in a mixing bowl to cool for 3 minutes. Then add the 4 eggs one by one to the dough. Make sure the mixture is completely smooth before you add the next egg. After that, transfer the dough into the piping bag and pipe the dough onto a grease pan. You may do any shapes you like but remember to leave some space between each piped dough as it will rise and expand. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius and then bake the dough for 35 minutes. Finally, when it is done leave the oven door ajar and wait for another 45 minutes. This is to prevent the profiteroles from collapsing due to the hot air escaping quickly . It will also become soggy.

To be truthful, mine did collapse a little so it is not that big. BUT it still taste great and my home smells delicious because of it. Ahhhhhhhh............ The fragrance of butter, fresh, crisp puffs.... I'm getting hungry as i type this. So here is a picture of it.
















Imagine it 1.5 bigger....... But it still looks tempting to it.
Now to find some pastry cream.....hmmmmmm.....