Profiteroles with Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce

Name: Profiteroles with Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 eggs; 237 milliliters all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters heavy cream; 946 milliliters ice cream, to fill profiteroles; 0 teaspoons fine salt; 355 milliliters sugar; 1 Tbsp unsalted butter; 113 grams unsalted butter, cubed; 118 milliliters water; 237 milliliters water

Profiteroles with Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 927 calories, 12g of protein, and 52g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes. It will be a hit at your Summer event. Head to the store and pick up eggs, water, butter, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Special equipment: a large pastry bag fitted a large plain tip, an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, a pastry brush

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Hand Mixer

Pastry Brush

Pastry Bag

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

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Oven

Put the water, butter, and salt in a heavy 2-quart saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally, to melt the butter.

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Butter

Water

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Remove the pan from the heat and add the flour all at once. Stir with a wooden spoon until the dough comes together to form a ball.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

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Wooden Spoon

Frying Pan

Place the pan over medium heat and beat constantly until the dough pulls away from the sides of the pan, about 4 minutes. Do not let it burn. A film may form on the bottom of the pan.

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Dough

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Frying Pan

Put the dough in an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.

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Dough

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Hand Mixer

Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and continue to beat the dough for 4 minutes at high speed. Feel the dough: it should be sticky at first and then smooth and glossy.

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Dough

Egg

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Bowl

Line a sheet pan with parchment paper, and use a little bit of the dough to stick the corners of the paper down.

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Dough

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Baking Paper

Frying Pan

Transfer the dough to a piping bag fitted with a large tip. Pipe the dough into 2-inch balls spaced about 1-inch apart on the parchment paper.

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Dough

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Baking Paper

Bake for 15 minutes; then rotate the tray and lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Continue to bake for 10 minutes. Turn the oven off, leaving the door slightly open to let the profiteroles cool in the oven.

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Oven

To assemble, cut the profiteroles in 1/2 using a serrated knife.

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Serrated Knife

Place a scoop of ice cream on the botton 1/2 of the profiterole.

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Ice Cream

Put the top on and drizzle with caramel sauce.

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Caramel Sauce

Put the sugar and water in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Stir once or twice to dissolve the sugar. Increase the heat to high and use a pastry brush dipped in cold water to brush down any crystallized sugar that forms on the side of the pan.

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Sugar