Caramel Mini-Choux with Mascarpone Dipping Cream

Name: Caramel Mini-Choux with Mascarpone Dipping Cream
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Makes About 30 Small Choux
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon icing (confectioners’) sugar; 250 ml (9 fl oz/1 cup) thin (pouring/whipping) cream, well chilled; 2 tablespoons mascarpone cheese; 100 ml (3½ fl oz) fresh full-cream (whole) milk; 4 eggs, beaten; 1 pinch caster (superfine) sugar; 90 g (3¼ oz) unsalted butter; 200 g (7 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 1 pinch salt; 110 g (3¾ oz/¾ cup) plain (allpurpose) flour, sifted

Preparation info

Makes About
30
Small Choux

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

100 Desserts to Die For

By Trish Deseine

Published 2016

About

A recipe that saves you the fiddly step of filling the choux by making them a tiny size for dipping in a cream rather than being filled.

Ingredients

For the choux pastry:

100 ml (3½ fl oz) fresh full-cream (whole) milk
90 g (

Dessert
Pastry
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

PREHEAT THE OVEN TO 210°C (410°F/GAS 6–7). Make the choux. Start by combining the milk, butter, salt, sugar and 100 ml (3½