Custard buns

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make custard buns in the oven? Prepare your food. Choose aromatic cheese with a rich taste - it will give the buns a unique aroma. Take large eggs, not lower than the first category. Pre-wash them with food-grade cleaner to remove any dirt.

2. STEP 2

   

   Take a thick-bottomed saucepan and place the butter, cut into cubes, into it. Pour in clean cold water and add salt. Place the saucepan over medium heat until the butter is completely melted and the water is boiling.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add all the flour at once. Reduce heat to minimum. While actively stirring the mixture with a spatula, brew the dough. The flour will quickly absorb all the water and gather into a lump. Your task is to achieve complete homogeneity. This will take a couple of minutes of active stirring over the fire. When this happens, remove the saucepan from the heat and cool the mixture until warm. Remember that you may need less or more flour. Read more in the article below the steps.

4. STEP 4

   

   While it cools, grate the cheese.

5. STEP 5

   

   Beat one egg into the flour base. Stir it in with a spatula. At first the dough will break up into lumps, but gradually become homogeneous. Choose a strong wooden spatula, you can also do this with a mixer. Beat the second egg into the dough. Mix it in the same way. And behind it comes the third.

6. STEP 6

   

   As a result, you will get a homogeneous, sticky, thick dough that will stick to the spatula.

7. STEP 7

   

   Pour grated cheese into it. You can also add finely chopped herbs to your liking.

8. STEP 8

   

   Mix the cheese into the dough with a spatula as well. There will be no problems with this, since the dough is very elastic and not tough.

9. STEP 9

   

   Line a baking tray with baking paper. I always choose siliconized parchment - baked goods will definitely not stick to it. Using a teaspoon dipped in water, scoop up the dough and place it in lumps on a baking sheet. You can make any size, mine is the size of a walnut, but keep in mind that the buns will grow during baking. Don't forget to leave some space between them too. I got one full pan and one smaller one.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place the baking sheet with the preparations in an oven preheated to 200°C. Do not open it for the first 20 minutes to prevent the buns from falling off. They will grow in size and turn golden. Bake the buns for 30-35 minutes. The exact time will depend on the features of your oven and their size. Mine took 35 minutes to bake. Read more about the operation of different ovens in the article on this topic. Link at the end of this recipe.

11. STEP 11

    

    Remove the finished cheese buns from the paper and cool. Serve to the table. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

tatyanochka2022

25.11.2023

5

Made custard buns today. Indeed, this is a bomb! The buns came out soft, with a tender, slightly moist crumb and a crispy crust, very pleasant to the taste! The process of preparing the dough is simple and quite exciting. Combine butter, salt and water in a small, thick-bottomed saucepan and place over medium heat. When the butter melted and the water boiled, poured all the flour into the ladle and stirred. After the dough became smooth and homogeneous, I put it on the windowsill to cool. Then she added three eggs into it, one at a time, kneading the dough each time until smooth. When adding eggs, my dough also first broke up into lumps and then became homogeneous. Lastly, I added grated cheese to the dough. I spread the dough onto a baking sheet with a teaspoon, dipping it in hot water before doing so. My bun blanks came out to be about the size of a walnut. The finished buns are 2.5 - 3 times larger. The recipe is excellent! I really liked the result, the detailed description, and the exact quantities of ingredients indicated. I will bake custard buns again! Thank you very much!

Tatyana EAO

25.11.2023

4.7

Today I finally got around to this recipe. I made custard buns in the oven with the addition of dried basil. I had no doubt that it would be delicious, I was only afraid that the cheese might burn, but nothing like that happened. But I looked at what would happen if I added too few eggs to the choux pastry. What will happen is this: the products hold their shape very well, but they hardly rise. You get such crispy cookies. I laid them out in stripes and they turned out super crispy. I like it. I will do it with the correct proportions and so on.

Bun

25.11.2023

4.7

Your recipe makes wonderful buns, but have you tried this? I advise

Tatiana

25.11.2023

4.7

Well, I took the risk of baking this miracle.. These are my first choux buns with cheese! I kept them in the oven until golden brown. I didn’t really have time to try them, because my husband was done! devoured it in the blink of an eye. But the one that I managed to grab was delicious, I liked it. I will continue to bake these little treats. Thanks for the recipe!

Verunchik

25.11.2023

4.8

There is an opinion that similar custard buns are served in France during wine tasting. They are called Gougères. The best cheese for them is Gruyère or Comté, with a pronounced taste. As it turns out, they go really well with wine! With coffee and tea they are also perfectly destroyed at the speed of sound, read - crunch! :))) My family is delighted with them! They can be offered to guests as a snack. These custard buns with cheese turned out airy, tender, with a pleasant cheese aroma. They are good when still warm and very tasty when cooled down. The recipe is wonderful! I will continue to cook using it