Recipe of Award-winning A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree

A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree.

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, a choux pastry christmas tree. It is one of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It's appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree is something which I've loved my entire life. They're nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook a choux pastry christmas tree using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree:

1. {Make ready of For the choux pastry:.
2. {Get of Water.
3. {Make ready of Unsalted butter.
4. {Make ready of Salt.
5. {Make ready of Cake flour.
6. {Get of to 3 Eggs.
7. {Prepare of Pastry cream.
8. {Make ready of whatever you like Decoration.
9. {Take of Icing.
10. {Make ready of Powdered sugar (for each color of icing).
11. {Prepare of few drops Water.
12. {Get of Food coloring.

Steps to make A Choux Pastry Christmas Tree:

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Combine the water, butter, and salt in a pan and heat..
2. When the butter has melted and the water has come to a boil, take the pan off the heat and add the flour. Mix rapidly with a wooden spatula..
3. Keep mixing until the dough comes cleanly off the pan, as shown here..
4. Keep mixing over low heat, until the dough becomes loose and shiny..
5. Take the pan off the heat. Beat 2 eggs and add to the pan in 4 batches, mixing well between additions until the egg is incorporated into the batter..
6. If the dough is too stiff, beat the remaining egg and add it a little at a time until the dough drops very slowly off the spatula when lifted..
7. Drop spoonfuls of the dough on a lined baking sheet, about 3 cm dome shapes. Dip the spoon in water each time..
8. Brush the remaining beaten eggs on the puffs with a pastry brush. Preheat the oven at 200°C for 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to 180 °C and bake until the jagged edges on the surface are golden brown..
9. Make the pastry cream to fill the puffs,. Cool the baked puffs..
10. Slice into each puff 1/3 from the top with a knife. Spoon in the pastry cream..
11. Make the icing. Add water to the powdered sugar drop by drop while mixing from the center, until it reaches a consistency that just slowly drops from a spoon when lifted. Color with the food coloring of your choice..
12. Spread the surface of each cream puff with icing and stick together in a tree shape. Optionally, add cookies as decorations..

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