Cheat’s Profiteroles

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    12

    large buns
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      45 min

Appears in
The Friendly Baker

By Lucy Parr

Published 2022

  • About

This recipe forces puff pastry to behave a bit like a choux bun. Yes, I admit it’s a cheat, but it’s almost impossible to make a good egg-free choux, which is what I’m after here, and this does the job very well. Once you add the filling and sauce to the hollow puff pastry buns, you really do get a profiterole effect.

Ingredients

  • 1 sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 240°c and line a muffin or cupcake tray with paper cases.
  2. Use a glass with a thick rim (not a cookie cutter) to cut out circles of pastry. You need the glass to squash and fuse together the edges of the dough, making a seal so the m