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How To Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles

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

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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

Step 1.
Preheat oven

Preheat your oven to 350°.
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.
Step 3.
Add flour

Add half a cup of all-purpose flour to the pot.
Step 4.
Stir

Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until the flour has absorbed all the liquid.
Step 5.
Remove pot from heat

Remove the pot from the heat. Keep stirring to allow steam to escape.
Step 6.
Mix in eggs

Mix in four eggs.
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.
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.
Step 9.
Pipe dough onto the paper

Pipe the dough onto the paper.
Step 10.
Put the pan into the oven

Put the pan into the oven.
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.
Step 12.
Spoon filling into pastry bag

Spoon the filling into a pastry bag.
Step 13.
Remove profiteroles from oven

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