Paris Brest


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Ingredients

Pastry Cream **
2 cups Water
1 cup Butter
1 pch Salt
1 1/2 cups Flour
7 lrg Eggs
1 tablespoon Sugar, powdered, to dust
Almonds, slivered

Preparation

1
** See recipe for Pastry Cream.
2
Boil water in a pan with butter and salt.
3
Add flour all at once and beat vigorously until dough pulls away from the sides of the pan and forms a ball.
4
Off the heat, beat in eggs, one or two at a time, until incorporated and smooth.
5
Put mixture into a pastry bag and pipe in a circle on a buttered and lightly floured baking sheet. Make another circle just inside the first, and a third on top of the first two.
6
Preheat oven to 375 F.
7
Paint with melted butter and top with almonds.
8
Place it in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
9
Remove and cool on a cake rack.
10
When cool, split horizontally and fill bottom ring with pastry cream.
11
Replace top ring and dust with powdered sugar.
12
Note: The preceding recipe is a basic pate a choux, or cream puff pastry, and it may be used in other recipes.

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Yield:

4.0 servings

Added:

Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 12:32am

Creator:

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