Tuesdays with Dorie BWJ: Chocolate-Cinnamon Beignets

April 19, 2016 at 8:18 pm | Posted in BWJ, general pastry, groups, other sweet, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 6 Comments
Tags: baking, choux, dessert

Normally when I think beignet, I just think donut…well, French donut, I guess. Something made with a donut-like dough. Usually involving yeast. It turns out there’s another type of beignet that I wasn’t really aware of…one made with fried pâte à choux dough, and Norman Love’s Chocolate-Cinnamon Beignets are an example. These ones have cocoa and cinnamon flavoring the choux dough and a filling of caramelized banana pastry cream. Yeah, there are a a bunch of things to make, but mmmmm.

Assembling these beignets is a lot like forming dumplings or ravioli. The choux dough is wrapped and chilled, before being rolled, cut and filled. And then folded, crimped, frozen and fried. I’ve never rolled out choux dough before, so this was a fun exercise. I could have cut the dough into circles like in the recipe (and made half-moons), but I cut it into squares instead (and made triangles) so I wouldn’t have any scraps to waste or otherwise deal with. Different geometry, but it all tastes the same.

These are best served à la minute, right when they’re fried crisp and the filling is warm. The recipe calls for serving the beignets with a sweet walnut and cream sauce, which I’m sure is delicious, but I had some chocolate-tahini sauce I made the other week and I used that instead. I added a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some sliced bananas, just because.

For the recipe, see Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan. There’s also a video of Norman and Julia making the beignets together. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll!

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Looks so delicious!!

Comment by Belinda— April 19, 2016 #

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These look absolutely amazing!

Comment by Caitlin - Wanderer and Wolf— April 19, 2016 #

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So impressed you tackled this one! I am dragging my feet on it but your post looks inspiring.

Comment by sunshine x 2— April 20, 2016 #

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What do you mean by “Tuesdays with Dorie BWJ”?

Comment by Barbara— April 21, 2016 #

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- Tuesdays with Dorie is the name of a baking group I blog along with. BWJ is the book these recipes are from, “Baking with Julia.”
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— April 22, 2016 #
  
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Oh what a perfect, perfect sweet treat!

Comment by saffronandhoney— April 25, 2016 #

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