Recipe courtesy of Peggy Cullen
Mountain of Profiteroles
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 40 small profiteroles
- Total: 45 min
- Prep: 45 min
Ingredients
1 recipe pate a choux, piped into about 40 cream puffs
1 recipe pastry cream
1 recipe chocolate ganache glaze
Directions
- Using a #1 (1/4-inch) star pastry tip, pierce a hole in the bottom of each puff. Gently whisk the cooled pastry cream until smooth. Fit the #1 tip into a pastry bag and inject the cream into each puff. On a plate or pedestal cake stand, arrange about 20 puffs to form a circular base, about 8 inches in diameter. Drip the chocolate sauce over them. Continue to pile up the puffs, dripping more sauce as you go.