Snowballs

Name: Snowballs (Boules de Neige)
Yield: About twenty-four 1-inch pastries
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ pound white chocolate, coarsely chopped and melted over a pan of hot water; 1 cup heavy cream; 12 ounces white chocolate; 1 recipe Pâte à Choux; ½ pound white chocolate, coarsely chopped and melted over a pan of hot water; ½ pound white chocolate, finely grated into shavings

Boules de Neige

Preparation info

About
twenty-four
1 inch pastries

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

About

These are a great way to dress up humble cream puffs. The little puffs are filled with a white chocolate ganache similar to the center of a truffle. Then they are coated in melted white chocolate and rolled in white chocolate shavings—a real treat for lovers of white chocolate.

Ingredients

1 recipe Pâte à Choux

Americas
United States
Pastry
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Set a rack at the middle level of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees.
Prepare the pâte à choux. Use a pastry bag fitted with a ½-inch plain tube (Ateco #806) to pipe about twenty-four 1-inch-diameter puffs on the prepared pan.