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Paris-Brest

in Diana's Recipe Book

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Servings: 8
 
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A delightful French dessert said to have been created by a pastry chef in honor of a bicycle race between the French cities of Paris and Brest. It consists of a baked almond-topped choux pastry ring (patterned after a bicycle tire) that is split and filled with a praline-flavored buttercream, or a chocolate flavored pastry cream.
PRONOUNCED: {pa-ree-BREHST}.

Ingredients:
INGREDIENTS FOR PASTRY:
1 cup water
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 tsp. sugar
Pinch of salt
1 cup un-sifted all-purpose flour
4 eggs
2 TBSP. sliced, blanched almonds
1 cup heavy cream
1 TBSP. confectioners' sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Confectioners' sugar (for dusting top)
CHOCOLATE PASTRY CREAM (ingredients and recipe below)

Instructions:
Butter and flour a large cookie sheet and trace a 9-inch circle, using a plate as a guide.
In small saucepan, heat water, butter, sugar and salt to a full rolling boil. Add flour all at once, lift saucepan a few inches over heat and stir rapidly with wooden spoon until paste comes cleanly away from side and forms a ball in the center. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Beat in 2 of the eggs with electric mixer or by hand. Add third egg and beat until paste becomes smooth and shiny. Paste must be thick enough to hold its shape. If eggs are large, it may not be necessary to add all of the last egg, so separate yolk and white. Beat in yolk and a little of the white if needed, but reserve enough of it to brush over surface of crown.
Fit pastry bag with large plain tip, fill with paste and press out a 1-inch high, 1 1/2-inch wide circle inside the outline, using all the paste. (Or spoon heaping tablespoonfuls of the paste close together inside the outline.) Brush with reserved egg white; sprinkle with almonds.
Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees F.) for 45 minutes or until puffed and golden brown. Remove from oven; cool on wire rack. When cool, split in half; scoop out any bits of soft dough. Beat cream with confectioners' sugar and vanilla in a small bowl until stiff. Alternate heaping spoonfuls of Chocolate Pastry Cream and whipped cream in bottom half of shell. Replace top; refrigerate. Sprinkle to lightly with confectioners' sugar.

INGREDIENTS FOR CHOCOLATE PASTRY CREAM:
3 TBSP. sugar
3 TBSP. all-purpose flour
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
2 egg yolks
1/3 cup strong brewed coffee
1 package (6 oz.) semisweet chocolate pieces
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp. rum or cognac flavoring
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
1 cup heavy cream, whipped

TO PREPARE CHOCOLATE PASTRY CREAM:
Combine sugar, flour, gelatin and egg yolks in a medium-size saucepan. Stir in coffee until blended. Heat semisweet chocolate and milk in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate melts.
Stir chocolate mixture into egg mixture until smooth. Heat, stirring constantly, until sauce is thickened. Remove from heat; set pan in pan of ice and water, stirring until cool. Stir in rum flavoring. Stir in part of the egg whites; fold in the remainder along with the heavy cream (whipped), until no streaks of white remain. Refrigerate until ready to fill ring.
Makes about 3 1/2 cups



Source: DianasDesserts.com
Date: March 19, 2002

Reviews

Reviewer: Carole Simonet
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Paris-Brest is made of praline butter cream and not of custard...especially chocolate!

 
Reviewer: John Wilson
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Thank you, My wife Sue will be making a Coffee Renoir tomorrow. Or a Paris Brest....Sue looked everywhere. I found you on Yahoo search. Thanks

 

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