You'll want two sheets of 2 inch piped mounds, and one sheet of small 1 inch piped mounds. Pipe cream puff batter onto a parchment lined baking sheet. And Lyndsay's sweet puffy towers of goodness here!Ĭheck out the official video and tutorial for the courtesan au chocolate here! It's real helpful.ġ batch of my favorite einkorn cream puff recipe (I subbed ghee for butter, by the way - which leads me to believe you could sub coconut oil if you're dairy free) We've all posted Mendl's inspired courtesan au chocolat recipes today! You can check out Molly's Matcha, Ube, & Raspberry version here. Molly Yeh ( My Name is Yeh), Lyndsay Sung ( Cococakeland) and I geeked out nerd-girl style over these pastries. That bright flavor really brings out the strawberry and chocolate fillings as well. I love the way the buttery choux pastry plays against the super tart icing. (I know, it's lime flavor, but Pink Lemonade is a construction of the advertising machine anyway, right? Lemons aint pink, people.). Put em together, add some natural pink dye, and it's pink lemonade all the way. I decided to do a pink lemonade version of these beauties becaaaaause I got a big ol' bottle of key lime juice the other day, and it just so happens that I had a ton of icing to make. (Thank god I had some friends over to help me eat them or Logan and I would have been in a bad way). Which practically didn't matter, we ate them so fast. As you can see from the photos, I threw these together in a vortex of confectioners sugar and pink dye and somehow managed to get these stacked. Well, except that I'm not an old hand at choux pastry. Not to mention, baking up a bunch of choux pastry (surprisingly easy). So I have to spend a couple of hours in my kitchen mixing up a range of pink icings, whipping eggs into chocolate, boiling strawberries for curd. I wish I could walk down my street, go to Mendl's, pick up a ribbon-tied box of them and dig in. Who wouldn't want an expert stack of perfect little custard filled cream puffs? I mean, I know I do. If I ever got to Paris I'm going to ask for one and be TOTALLY miffed that the patisserie shops haven't caught on yet ( Ah fille américaine, vous êtes fou.). I've been informed that no such thing exists in French pastry, but in my head it will now and for forever more. In the film they're called courtesan au chocolat. She bakes up these quirky little stacks of choux pastry filled with chocolate and iced in white chocolate. And not just because it features the pink and turquoise, flour-covered goings on of an adorable bakery girl (Agatha) - which may or may not make my little baking heart go all aflutter. ![]() ![]() You've seen Wes Anderson's new movie, right? The Grand Budapest Hotel? It's possibly the best Wes Anderson film to date.
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