Profiteroles- Ice Cream Puffs With Chocolate Sauce

These elegant ice cream sandwiches are impressive and make for a wonderful dessert that everyone will love. Store bought ice cream and dark chocolate for melting on top make for a fairly easy dessert to create, and a memorable one at that.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: French, Parisian

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 1

Total Time: 1 10

Servings:

Author: My Hungry Traveler

Equipment

Medium saucepan
Baking pan

Ingredients

1 stick Unsalted butter
1 cup Water
1 tbsp Sugar
⅛ tsp Salt
1 cup Flour
3 large Eggs
12 oz Good quality chocolate chips or bar
6 tbsp Heavy cream
2 pints Good quality vanilla ice cream

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Instructions

To make choux puffs: Preheat oven to 400° (205°C). In a covered saucepan, bring butter, water, sugar, and salt to a boil without lifting cover. Remove pan from heat. .
Stir flour into same saucepan until well incorporated. Put saucepan back on medium-high heat and stir until dough pulls away from sides and becomes a ball. Transfer to a bowl and put aside to cool down a bit.
Add the eggs to the flour one at a time, mixing vigorously with a wooden spoon. Once one egg if fully incorporated, add the next. With an ice cream scoop, create 8 mounds of the mix onto a greased baking sheet. Round-off any rough edges with wet fingers.
Bake mounds for 10 minutes and then lower the heat to 350° (175°C) and cook 40-45 minutes longer. They should be lightly browned, puffed, and cracked. Place then on a cooling rack to cool.
To serve: microwave a bowl with cream for 1 minute. Remove and stir in chocolate chips. Stir until melted and melded.
Slice pastry puffs in half across the middle. On a plate or bowl, top bottom half with a scoop of ice cream, put top half over ice cream. Pour chocolate sauce over and serve immediately. For a bit more dramatic flair, pour chocolate sauce at the table, asking diners to say "when" to stop.

Notes

Soak saucepan in soap and water after flour ball removed. Sticky stuff will be a pain to remove otherwise.
Milk chocolate may be used but is nowhere near as tasty or authentic.
Different ice cream flavors can be substituted for the original vanilla.

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