How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles

  • May 18, 2008
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Most people know profiteroles as a cream-filled dessert, but this recipe turns them into one truly tasty appetizer.

You Will Need

  • 1/2 c. water
  • 1/2 c. milk
  • Half a stick of butter
  • 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
  • A heavy, 1- to 2-quart pot
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/4 c. roasted garlic
  • 11 oz. fresh goat cheese
  • An 11-by-17-inch sheet tray
  • Some parchment paper
  • 2 piping or pastry bags
  • 1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme leaves
  • 1 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley
  • Some salt and pepper
  • A wooden spoon
  • An oven
  • A paring knife
How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Preheat oven

Step 1: Preheat oven

Preheat your oven to 350°.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Combine the basic ingredients

Step 2: Combine the basic ingredients

Combine the basic ingredients. Add half a cup of water, half a cup of milk, and half a stick of butter to your pot and bring it to a boil.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Add flour

Step 3: Add flour

Add half a cup of all-purpose flour to the pot.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Stir

Step 4: Stir

Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until the flour has absorbed all the liquid.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Remove pot from heat

Step 5: Remove pot from heat

Remove the pot from the heat. Keep stirring to allow steam to escape.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Mix in eggs

Step 6: Mix in eggs

Mix in four eggs.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Spoon dough into pastry bag

Step 7: Spoon dough into pastry bag

Spoon the dough into a pastry bag.

If you don’t have a pastry bag, fill a self-sealing plastic bag and cut off one corner.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Secure parchment paper

Step 8: Secure parchment paper

Secure the parchment paper to the sheet pan by putting a small dot of dough in the four corners of your pan and then laying the parchment paper in place.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Pipe dough onto the paper

Step 9: Pipe dough onto the paper

Pipe the dough onto the paper.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Put the pan into the oven

Step 10: Put the pan into the oven

Put the pan into the oven.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Mix the filling

Step 11: Mix the filling

Mix the filling. Add 11 ounces of fresh goat cheese (at room temperature), about a quarter cup of roasted garlic, a teaspoon of chopped fresh thyme leaves, and a tablespoon of chopped fresh parsley to a bowl. Mix the ingredients together, using your spoon to crush the garlic. Add salt and pepper to taste.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Spoon filling into pastry bag

Step 12: Spoon filling into pastry bag

Spoon the filling into a pastry bag.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Remove profiteroles from oven

Step 13: Remove profiteroles from oven

Remove the pan from the oven. Allow the profiteroles to cool for 10 minutes.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Fill the profiteroles

Step 14: Fill the profiteroles

Fill the profiteroles by inserting the tip of your pastry bag into the center of the profiterole and squeezing in your goat cheese filling.

How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles: Serve and enjoy

Step 15: Serve and enjoy

Serve and enjoy!

In 1998, bakers in Athens made a profiterole that weighed 4½ tons and required 1,800 eggs.

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Comments (2)

roxas613

looks tasty =)

over 2 years ago by roxas613

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amybush

oh..it is delicious..

over 2 years ago by amybush

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