Profiteroles with coffee ice cream recipe

Photo Credit: The Bitten Word

Profiteroles are pastries that will make you look like Martha Stewart (not literally!), but are very simple to make. It’s also cool to see the dough come together like magic. Profiteroles are also versatile in that you can fill them with anything from shrimp salad to chocolate mousse. In this recipe we’re going with coffee ice cream.

Profiteroles with coffee ice cream

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup sifted regular flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 quart coffee ice cream
• Fudge sauce (store bought works for me!)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400F. Bring the water, butter, and salt to a boil in a medium sized saucepan. Reduce heat and add flour. Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a ball. View the miraculous ball with amazement. Remove from heat.

Let cool just enough so that the eggs don’t cook when you add them to the miraculous ball of almost-dough, about 3-4 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. When all the eggs have been incorporated, the mixture should look shiny and smooth.

Transfer to a pastry bag then use a large straight tip to pipe 1-inch balls onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, or one of those Silpat-type silicone liners. If you don’t have a pastry bag and tip, you can cut the corner off a plastic zipper bag and use that instead. Or, you can just drop the batter in small mounds using spoons. You must have spoons, right? Space them about 2 inches apart because they expand in the oven!

Bake for 25 minutes or until they’re puffy, crisp, and golden. Remove from cookie sheets and let cool on a wire rack. Makes about 20 puffs.

Want to eat them now? Split them and put a small scoop of coffee ice cream inside. Put the tops back on. Pile them into a shallow bowl and drizzle with the chocolate sauce.

Want to keep them for later? Split them and put a small scoop of coffee ice cream inside. Put the tops back on. Put the filled puffs in a single layer on the cookie sheet, cover, and freeze.

Let stand about 10-15 minutes to soften, then do that drizzle thing with the fudge sauce before serving.

If you liked this recipe, try my this Easy Tiramisu!