Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Week 31: Rhubarb Crumble Choux Buns

I had been planning this for a while. I decided straight away that I wanted to do this one in Finland with my grandmother, because she grows rhubarb and is always looking for new ways of using rhubarb. And this is definitely a new way :D Even though it didn't work out exactly as planned ;)

So I started by making the crumble to put onto of the choux pastry when it goes in the oven:

Rubbing the crumble together :D

I then rolled it out in between cling film to get a thin slab that I can easily cut out from later
While the crumble was freezing in the freezer I started on the pastry:

Bringing the butter, sugar and water to a roiling boil
After stirring rapidly it came together into a ball, and then I poured it into a mixing bowl to allow it to cool
I then added 3 eggs to make it smooth
The mixture was now ready to use
Before I go any further, I should let you know that we had no idea really how to pipe out the choux pastry.

Piping out the pastry in a way we think will work. Surprisingly we then discovered, a third of our way through piping, that it was not the right way to do ;) You are meant to pipe in one small blob, not as wide as ours!! Never mind, we were thinking something would come out of the oven that will be yummy :D
Cutting out the crumble, which we would then place over the choir pastry before the oven. And this was the only cookie cutter that we had which was closest to the same size as the piped pastry and was not a weird animal shape ;) 

Putting the crumble on top of the pastry. As you can see the pastry did not cut exactly as the shape cutter wanted ;)
Our magnificent choux pastry ready for the oven
Baking away. At this point it was looking good, since it was rising as it was supposed to

Harri then started reading the recipe for the creme patissiere that we would, according to the recipe, pipe inside the choux buns 
Measuring out the milk, after which we would add the vanilla extract and leave to steam on the hob
The difficult process of separating the eggs ;) Word of warning: the egg seperator made things even worse!!


Measuring out the rhubarb for the Rhubarb Crumble