Chocolate Fudge Topped Petite Cream Puffs | Slowly Hors D'oeuvres

 When I was inwards college, I worked at a bakery called the Upper Crust.  They made the most beautiful desserts, cookies, cakes in addition to breads - most from scratch.  One of their most pop items were these small-scale bite-size cream puffs alongside chocolate fudge buttercream.  Ladies would come upward inwards a purchase trays amount for parties, in addition to thus bring a distich boxed upward for the auto ride home.  People were addicted!  The existent hush-hush was... the cream puffs were frozen!  That's right.  They bought them from Costco, in addition to thus added their ain delicious buttercream on top.

When I started catering, these cream puffs were my hush-hush weapon.  I could plow out 100 inwards 10 minutes for $15... in addition to my clients loved them - e'er at the transcend of the asking list. 





Chocolate Fudge Topped Petite Cream Puffs
the easiest sweetness treat

Frozen Mini Cream Puffs
Chocolate Fudge Buttercream (store-bought or homemade - recipe below)

Thaw the cream puffs for virtually an threescore minutes at room temperature or a distich of hours inwards the refrigerator.  Put the chocolate butter cream inwards a plastic pastry bag.  Cut the tip off, leaving virtually a 1/2 inch opening.  Pipe the buttercream on the puffs.

Chocolate Fudge Buttercream Recipe

iv sticks of salted butter, soften
vi cups of powdered sugar
ane 1/2 loving cup of chocolate chips
1/2 loving cup of heavy cream

Place chocolate chips inwards a microwave prophylactic bowl in addition to pour over heavy cream.  Microwave for ane minute, in addition to thus stir.  Repeat until the chocolate ganache (yes, that is ganache!) is smooth.  Be careful non to over heat.  Refrigerate for xv minutes until cool.

In your kitchen assistance fitted alongside a paddle attachment, whip butter in addition to iv cups saccharide for 3 minutes until fluffy in addition to smooth.  Pour inwards chocolate ganache in addition to two to a greater extent than cups of powdered sugar.  Whip until smooth.  Add to a greater extent than powdered sugar, if necessary to practise the thickness.

Put the buttercream inwards a pastry handbag (or ziploc bag) in addition to cutting ane inch opening at the bottom of the bag.  Pipe inwards a swirl on transcend of the cupcake - live real generous alongside frosting.

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