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Craquelin Choux Buns

Choux pastries with a crisp chocolate craquelin cap, filled with mascarpone and boiled condensed milk Iris cream.
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Chilling 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 20 pastries

Ingredients
  

For the craquelin
  • 60 g sugar
  • 60 g butter room temperature
  • 40 g flour
  • 20 g cocoa powder
For the choux pastry
  • 100 ml milk
  • 100 ml water
  • 100 g butter
  • 140 g flour
  • 4-5 eggs
  • salt and sugar a pinch each
For the Iris cream
  • 250 g mascarpone
  • 250 g boiled condensed milk toffee

Method
 

Craquelin
  1. Mix the room-temperature butter with the sugar, flour and cocoa, and quickly knead into a dough.
  2. Roll it out very thin, 2 mm thick, between two sheets of parchment.
  3. Use a round cutter, 4 cm in diameter, to cut out disks right on the parchment and freeze for at least an hour.
Choux pastry
  1. Put all the ingredients except the flour and eggs into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
  2. Add all the flour at once and cook the dough with a spatula: within a minute it should pull away from the bottom and sides.
  3. Remove from the heat and let it rest for 15-20 minutes to cool.
  4. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing the dough; add the last egg gradually until you reach the right consistency.
Baking
  1. On parchment or a silicone mat, pipe round mounds 3-4 cm in diameter and top each with a disk of craquelin.
  2. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 °C for 30-35 minutes, without opening the door.
  3. Leave the finished pastries in the switched-off oven for 5-10 minutes, then remove and let cool.
Assembly
  1. Whip the mascarpone with the boiled condensed milk into a fluffy cream.
  2. Cut the cap off each pastry, fill with cream and put the crisp top back on.
  3. Serve right away.

Notes

You can make the craquelin without cocoa too, for a lighter-colored cap.