Cream Puffs with Dark-Chocolate Sauce

Cream Puffs with Dark-Chocolate Sauce

Serves: 10
Yields: 10 servings
Total Time: 55 min
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 40 min
Oven Temp: 400
Ingredients
• 1 cup(s) water
• 6 tablespoon(s) butter or margarine
• 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
• 1 cup(s) all-purpose flour
• 4 large eggs
• 4 ounce(s) bittersweet chocolate
• 1/2 cup(s) half-and-half or light cream
• 1 tablespoon(s) sugar
• 1 quart(s) light vanilla ice cream
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease and flour large cookie sheet or
spray it with a nonstick spray that contains flour.
2. In 3-quart saucepan, heat water, butter, and salt to boiling on medium
until butter melts. Remove saucepan from heat. Vigorously stir in
flour all at once until mixture forms ball and comes away from side of
pan.
3.Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, until batter
becomes smooth and satiny.
4.Drop batter by scant 1/4 cups into 10 large mounds, 2 inches apart,
onto prepared cookie sheet. With fingertip moistened with water,
gently smooth tops to round.
5.Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until puffs are a deep golden-brown. Remove
cookie sheet from oven; with knife, poke hole in one side of each puff
to release steam. Turn off oven. Return cookie sheet to oven and let
puffs stand 10 minutes to dry out slightly. Transfer puffs to wire rack
to cool completely.
6.Using serrated knife, slice each cooled puff horizontally in half. With
fingers, remove and discard any moist dough inside.
7. Meanwhile, coarsely chop chocolate. In 1-quart saucepan, heat halfand-
half and sugar just to boiling on medium-high. Remove saucepan
from heat; add chocolate and let stand 1 minute. Whisk until smooth.
8.To serve, place 1 scoop ice cream in each cream puff base; replace
cream puff top, then drizzle with warm chocolate sauce.