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🍰 Football-shaped Cream Puffs with Icing and Chocolate Decoration

280 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with fan setting.
  2. 2. Place flour, cornstarch, and baking powder in a bowl and sift them together.
  3. 3. Beat soft butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt in a separate bowl using a hand mixer with beaters until creamy.
  4. 4. Gradually stir in the eggs and milk into the butter mixture.
  5. 5. Add the flour mixture in portions and mix until you have a smooth dough.
  6. 6. Fill the dough into a piping bag fitted with a large round nozzle (approx. 12 mm diameter).
  7. 7. Pipe equally sized dough mounds (approx. 6 cm diameter) with plenty of space between them onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  8. 8. Bake the puffs for approx. 15 minutes.
  9. 9. Remove the trays from the oven and let the puffs cool down completely for approx. 30 minutes.
  10. 10. Whisk powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons of water in a bowl to make the icing.
  11. 11. Spread the icing evenly over the cooled puffs and smooth it out.
  12. 12. Let the icing dry for approx. 10 minutes.
  13. 13. Bring approx. 500 ml of water to a boil in a small saucepan.
  14. 14. Roughly chop the coating chocolate.
  15. 15. Melt the chocolate in a bowl placed over the hot water bath.
  16. 16. Pour the melted chocolate into a freezer bag.
  17. 17. Push the chocolate into one corner of the bag and seal it tightly to create a piping bag.
  18. 18. Cut a small opening in the corner of the bag.
  19. 19. Draw a football pattern onto the puffs using the chocolate.
  20. 20. Let the chocolate decoration harden for approx. 10 minutes.
  21. 21. Serve the football puffs and enjoy!

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