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Peaches & Cream Profiteroles

Bite-sized puffs of choux pastry filled with a creamy, fresh peach filling and topped with fresh peach icing.
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Servings 18

Ingredients
  

Peach Purée

  • 2 large fresh peaches, peeled, pitted and sliced *see note below
  • ½ teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon natural peach flavoring

Peaches & Cream Filling

  • 1 cup whole milk
  • cup (2 ounces) granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons (1/2 ounce) cornstarch
  • ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoon (1 ounce) unsalted butter
  • ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • teaspoon pure almond extract
  • peach purée recipe above
  • cup heavy whipping cream

Profiteroles

  • ½ cup water
  • 4 tablespoons (2 ounces) unsalted butter, cubed
  • teaspoon fine sea salt
  • ½ cup (2 1/4 ounces) all purpose flour
  • 2 eggs room temperature

Peach Icing

  • ¾ cup (3 ounces) powdered sugar, sifted
  • 2 tablespoons reserved peach puree
  • 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
  • ¼ teaspoon natural peach flavoring

Instructions
 

Peach Purée

  • Purée peaches in a blender or food processor. Strain puréed peaches through a sieve. Stir in lemon juice.
  • Place puréed peaches in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
  • Reduce heat and simmer until peach purée is reduced by half.
  • Remove from heat. Stir in peach flavoring and set aside to cool completely.

Peaches and Cream Filling

  • Bring milk to a boil in a small saucepan over medium heat.
  • Meanwhile, whisk sugar, cornstarch and salt together in a medium bowl. Add the egg and whisk until smooth.
  • When milk starts to boil, remove from heat and pour 1/3 of the hot milk into the egg mixture and whisk to combine.
  • Pour the egg mixture into the remaining hot milk and cook over medium heat, stirring continuously, until the mixture comes to a boil and thickens.
  • Remove from heat. Stir in butter and extracts.
  • Pour mixture through a sieve placed over a bowl. Cover the surface of pastry cream with plastic wrap. Let cool.
  • Set aside 2 tablespoons of cooled peach purée. Add remaining peach purée to cooled pastry cream and stir to combine. Chill in refrigerator.
  • In a medium bowl, whip heavy cream to stiff peaks with an electric mixer at high speed. Fold whipped cream into peach pastry cream mixture. Set aside in refrigerator.

Profiteroles

  • Preheat oven to 400ºF. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • Combine water, butter and salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat.
  • Reduce heat. Add flour and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until mixture pulls away from sides of the pan and forms a ball.
  • Transfer mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low speed until steam dissipates and mixture cools to lukewarm.
  • Add eggs one at a time and beat with an electric mixer at medium speed, until smooth, stopping to scrape down bowl.
  • Transfer mixture to a piping bag, fitted with a large round tip. (**I used Ateco tip 808.)
  • Pipe 1 1/4 inch mounds, about 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets. Smooth tops with a wet finger.
  • Bake for 15 minutes, then turn oven temperature down to 350ºF and continue baking until golden brown, about 8-10 more minutes. Using a toothpick or skewer poke a small hole in each profiterole to let steam escape. Place on a wire rack to cool completely.
  • Using the tip of a paring knife, poke a pilot hole in the bottom of each profiterole.
  • Place peaches and cream filling into a piping bag fitted with a medium round piping tip. (***I used Wilton tip 12.)
  • Place piping tip into the pilot holes and fill each profiterole with filling.

Peach Icing

  • In a small bowl, whisk all icing ingredients together and spoon over filled profiteroles. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Notes

*To make peaches easy to peel, blanch them  in boiling water for about 30 seconds, then dunk  in ice water.
**To find Ateco tip 808, click here. ***To find Wilton tip 12, click here.