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🍽️ Classic Religieuse with Coffee Cream
277 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 125 ml Milk
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 60 g Butter
- 165 g Flour
- 5 Eggs
- 150 ml Milk
- 100 ml Coffee (freshly brewed)
- 0.5 Vanilla pod
- 3 Egg yolks
- 40 g Sugar
- 1 tsp Cornstarch
- 20 g soft Butter
Instructions
- 1. Put 125 milliliters of water, a pinch of salt, sugar, and the butter into a pot.
- 2. Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring.
- 3. Remove the pot from the heat and pour in the flour all at once.
- 4. Stir the mixture vigorously with a wooden spoon until it combines.
- 5. Place the pot back on the heat and keep stirring until the dough pulls away from the bottom of the pot.
- 6. Make sure a white layer forms on the bottom of the pot.
- 7. Transfer the dough to a bowl and let it cool down briefly.
- 8. Mix the eggs into the dough gradually, ensuring each addition is fully incorporated.
- 9. Knead the dough until it is smooth and pliable.
- 10. Fill the dough into a piping bag fitted with a plain tip.
- 11. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius for top and bottom heat.
- 12. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- 13. Pipe six to eight large dollops with a diameter of five to six centimeters onto the tray.
- 14. Pipe six to eight small dollops with a diameter of about two centimeters alongside them.
- 15. Bake the pastries for about twenty minutes in the oven.
- 16. Remove the small balls and set them aside.
- 17. Bake the large pastries for another fifteen minutes until they are golden brown.
- 18. Let all the pastries cool down completely.
- 19. Bring milk, coffee, and the slit vanilla pod to a boil in a pot.
- 20. Whisk the egg yolks with sugar and cornstarch in a separate bowl.
- 21. Pour the hot coffee milk slowly in a thin stream into the eggs.
- 22. Return the mixture to the pot and cook it while stirring until it thickens.
- 23. Transfer the cream to a bowl and let it cool to lukewarm while stirring occasionally.
- 24. Remove the vanilla pod from the cream.
- 25. Stir the butter into the cooled cream gradually.
- 26. Let the cream cool down completely.
- 27. Spread some coffee cream onto the small and large profiteroles.
- 28. Place the small profiteroles on top of the large ones.
- 29. Fill the remaining cream into a piping bag fitted with a star tip.
- 30. Decorate the religieuses with the cream.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 277
- Protein: 9 g · Fett/Fat: 16 g · Carbs: 24 g