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Cherry Choux Buns | Recipe
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12/02/2025
These afternoon tea cakes are super impressive yet simple to make - the perfect combination.
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Hello my name is Andrew Garret from the Langham Hotel and we're going to make the
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shoe time cake which is a shoe bun filled with the cream and a cherry on
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the top. And now we're going to make the shoe pastry for the shoe time shoe. So
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we're going to boil milk and butter.
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The salt and sugar. What's really important with the shoe pastry is that
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we make sure that the butter is completely melted. So now the milk and
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the butter is coming to the boil just to make sure that the butter is completely
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dissolved and then we're ready to add the flour. You can add the flour all in
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one go. I'm just going to mix it to a thick paste. So the gas is off here and
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there you can see that the paste is thick. Everything is mixed well together
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and something that we are told to do with shoe pastry is that we to dry it
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out. But as you can see there's a steam coming already out of the mix. If we turn
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the heat back on and dry out the shoe pastry we tend to find that at the
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bottom of the pan is where the flour sticks and actually it's something we
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want the flour to stay within the mix because that's what absorbs the moisture.
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So all I'm doing is just mixing it slowly using the heat that's already in
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the pan just to dry get rid of the excess moisture. So I'll just do that for
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a minute or so and now we're ready to add the eggs gradually. Now when
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you're adding the eggs in the shoe pastry you add a small amount. Mix it in
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to the dough and then you gradually add, gradually add until you get it to the
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right consistency. And you might find that with shoe pastry that
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you don't always add the same amount of egg. It will all depend on maybe the flour
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that you're using, the amount of time that you've just left it to dry or if
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the liquid is evaporated too much at the beginning. But you'll
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see that the shoe pastry is ready more when the texture is right. What
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the egg does in the shoe pastry it's the egg that's going to enable the puff or
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give the puff into the shoe pastry. What you do have to be careful is not to add
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too much egg. So one final mix to get a nice smooth and shiny paste. Now we've
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got a shoe paste that's ready to pipe. So now we've transferred the shoe pastry
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into a piping bag. We've got a number 10 nozzle so it's a 10 millimeter nozzle
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and we're just going to pipe onto a silicone mat. It's important to leave a
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big enough gap between. Obviously they will expand in the oven and puff up.
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Just rolled some sweet pastry as thin as possible between sheets. We've frozen it
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and then just cut it out into small discs. We're going to put one of these on
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top of each shoe and this is going to give us a crunchy texture and it will
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also help to hold the shape of the shoe. So we should have a nice round shoe once
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these have been baked. We're going to do half that way and half without.
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While the shoe is baking we're going to make the filling which is the simple
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mousseline cream. The first step is to mix the eggs with the sugar and the
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flour. Something that's very important when you're making this cream is that
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you always mix the sugar and the eggs first. What's very important is that the
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sugar dissolves in the egg. If we don't dissolve the sugar in the eggs then the
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sugar will absorb the moisture of the eggs and what you'll be left with is the
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lumps of fat that are left in the egg yolk that don't ever disappear so you'll
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have a very lumpy cream. Then we add the flour and in here we've got a mix of
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cornflour and flour so that it gives us a thickening agent as well as an agent
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that will give a little bit of elasticity to the mix and then we're
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ready just to add it to the milk. Now we're going to boil the milk for the
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base of the cream. We're going to pour the milk in and bring it to the boil. Now
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while the milk's boiling I'm just going to explain about the gelatine. The
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gelatine that we're using is a powder that we've added water to. So our base
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recipe for our gelatine mass as we call it is one gram of powder for five grams
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of water. So the milk is boiling, the gelatine is ready there and we're just
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going to take our eggs, sugar and flour that we mixed earlier and as the milk
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comes to the boil we're going to pour directly the eggs, the flour into the
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mix and the sugar into the mix leaving the heat still on and we're just going
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to whisk that into our cream and you can see that it's going to thicken very very
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quickly to give us something that resembles a traditional pastry cream. So
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now the pastry cream is cooked we're going to drop in the gelatine, turn off
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the heat and just dissolve the gelatine in the mix. Now all the gelatine is
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dissolved, the cream is cooked, we're ready to put it into a container. So now
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the cream has cooled down to 40 degrees. You'll see that we've put a cling film on
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top and this cling film was just to stop any skin forming on top of the cream
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which will as well create a lumpy texture, grainy texture in the cream. So
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the cream's at 40, our butter is just slightly softened, we're going to add it
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into the cream and just whisk it in. This is something that can do the day
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before you need this cream and once this butter's dissolved into the cream we're
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just going to put it in the fridge and it can be left overnight or within a
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couple of hours it's ready to use. So the choux have just come out of the oven
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we've left them to cool. As you can see they've kept a shape and they've got
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this textured finish which is the sweet pastry. We're just going to leave those
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there for now. We've got the base of our muslin cream, so the pastry cream with
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butter. Going to add a very small amount of mascarpone again too and also just a
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small amount of grated tonka. So tonka, it's a bean, you tend to find it in
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Venezuela, can be used in perfume quite a lot to give you a vanilla scent. So we've
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just the tonka, the base pastry cream and mascarpone, we're just going to whisk it
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together to get the texture that we want. We're basically just making sure there's
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no lumps of mascarpone in this cream. As you can see a very quick mixing, so that
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we'll just leave here. We're going to slice our choux.
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In here we've just got a cherry jam, so it's cherries, quite a small amount of
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sugar and a little bit of pectin just to help to set it. We're going to pipe
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into the base of our choux. It's just an addition to give us a slightly extra or
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a stronger cherry flavor in the choux. You pipe into the base of each. Then we're
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going to fill the piping bag with the muslin cream and fill each choux with a
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good amount of cream.
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And you can either just cover with the lid of the choux or just as decoration
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with a cherry. Now we have the cherry choux tart.
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