Choux pastry rectangle with mascarpone-currant cream

AUTHOR
Shirley Vincent
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 1
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 6
  • 75 ml Milk
  • 45 g Butter
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 120 g Flour
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 2 sheets Gelatine
  • 250 g Mascarpone
  • 200 g Whole milk yoghurt
  • 50 g Sugar
  • 1 glass (340 g) red currant jam
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Bring milk, 75 ml water, butter and salt to the boil in a saucepan. When the fat is completely melted, add flour all at once. Stir with a wooden spoon until a white layer forms on the bottom of the pot and the dough comes off the bottom of the pot as a lump.

  2. 2

    Place in a bowl and immediately stir in 1 egg. Leave to cool for about 10 minutes. Stir 2 eggs bit by bit into the dough.

  3. 3

    Pour the dough into a piping bag with a medium perforated spout. Spray the choux pastry in strips onto a baking tray lined with baking paper to form two rectangles (approx. 10 x 30 cm). In a preheated oven (electric cooker: 225 °C/ circulating air: 200 °C/ gas: see

  4. 4

    manufacturer) Bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.

  5. 5

    Soak gelatine in cold water. Cover 1 choux pastry rectangle with a rectangular cake frame (or make a frame from aluminium foil). Mix mascarpone, yoghurt and sugar to a smooth cream.

  6. 6

    Squeeze out the gelatine, dissolve and stir in 5 tablespoons of the Mascarpone Cream. Stir the gelatine into the remaining mascarpone cream. Stir in 3/4 of the jam slightly striped and smooth it down on the choux pastry base.

  7. 7

    Place the second choux pastry base on top as a lid and chill for about 2 hours.

  8. 8

    Remove the choux pastry from the frame and decorate with the remaining jam.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
560 kcal
CARBS
62 g
FATS
29 g
PROTEINS
10 g