It's nice to have a cup of tea with your girlfriends and treat yourself to homemade pastries. For this purpose, tender and savory custard biscuits with cream and chocolate icing are suitable.
Making custard biscuits
To bake this delicacy, a clear and careful execution of all nuances is required. Therefore, cooking is divided into several stages.
For the first stage, you need to take the following products:
- butter - 100 grams;
- ordinary water - 250 grams;
- sugar - 1 spoon;
- salt - a pinch.
All ingredients are placed in a saucepan and put on fire. Bring to a boil with constant stirring.
At the second stage of making choux pastry, you will need:
- white wheat flour of the highest grade - 150 grams;
- raw chicken eggs - 5 pieces.
When the contents of the saucepan begin to boil, reduce the heat to low. Stir quickly and gradually add all the flour. There should be no lumps. Now you need other dishes (preferably porcelain). The dough is transferred into it to continue kneading.
Now it's time to add eggs. They must be broken into dough one at a time and immediately stirred very quickly so that they do not have time to curl up.
It is recommended to break the last egg into a separate bowl and stir. Add one spoon to the dough only when necessary, so that the consistency does not turn out to be very liquid.
At the third stage of preparation, you must use a plastic bag. A small hole is made in the corner of the bottom with scissors. The finished dough is laid out in the bag.
The pre-oiled bottom of the baking sheet is lightly powdered with flour. Small portions of the dough are squeezed out of the bag.
You can use a spoon instead of a bag. Only it will have to be dipped in cold water every time so that the dough lags well and does not stick together.
To fill the cookies with cream, you can simply push the crumb a little from the side and put the cream into the void with a spoon.
The baking sheet is placed in the oven. It must be preheated to a temperature of 150 - 180 ° C. Bake the cookies for 30 to 40 minutes, until golden brown.
Making a custard cream
This custard is made without flour. To prepare it, you need to take:
- heavy cream - 500 grams;
- raw chicken eggs - 6 pieces;
- natural honey - 6 teaspoons;
- zest from half an orange.
The cream is slightly warmed up over the fire. Eggs are broken into a separate dish, honey is added. Everything is carefully knocked down with a whisk. A little vanilla can be added for flavor. The zest is removed from the orange with a fine grater and added to the creamy mass.
Warmed cream is added to the resulting composition. It is necessary to stir everything quickly with a whisk while pouring the cream so that the egg base does not curl. Without stopping whipping, the whole mixture is poured into a saucepan and placed on fire. Beating must not be interrupted! As soon as the cream begins to thicken, it is transferred to another container for cooling.
Ready cooled cookies, like a basket, are filled with custard. For this, a hole in the baking cap is pierced with a pastry syringe. Then the entire top is covered with chocolate icing.
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Making chocolate glaze
To make the frosting, you need to use a dark chocolate bar with a high cocoa content. The tile is broken into pieces and placed in a steam bath. When the chocolate mass is completely melted, you can cover the cookies with it.
