Mountain of profiteroles

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Recipe pate a choux, piped
Into about 40 cream puffs
1 Recipe pastry cream
1 Recipe chocolate ganache
Glaze

Directions

Using a #1 (¼-inch) star pastry tip, pierce a hole in the bottom of each puff. Gently whisk the cooled pastry cream until smooth. Fit the #1 tip into a pastry bag and inject the cream into each puff. On a plate or pedestal cake stand, arrange about 20 puffs to form a circular base, about 8 inches in diameter. Drip the chocolate sauce over them. Continue to pile up the puffs, dripping more sauce as you go.

Yield: 40 small profiteroles

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