Step 1

Preheat your oven to 220C / 200C Fan. Prepare a large baking sheet.

Step 2

Sieve your gluten free self raising flour, xanthan gum, sugar and salt into a bowl. Put to one side.

Step 3

Place your milk and water into a small/medium saucepan alongside your butter. Heat on a low/medium heat until the butter has melted.

Step 4

Once melted allow to bring up to a gentle simmer. Once simmering, turn the heat off and immediately add your flour mix to the saucepan. Mix vigorously straight away until everything comes together into a dough.

Step 5

If the mixture still seems a tiny bit moist on top put it back on a very low heat (continuously stirring) for a minute or so, don't let it stick to the bottom.

Step 6

Take off the heat and place in a bowl to cool a little. You need to do this before adding your eggs next.

Step 7

Beat 2 eggs in a jug and then gradually add it to the dough. You need to mix really thoroughly between each addition. You can do this by hand quite easily but its a proper workout! I tend to do it with an electric hand mixer on the lowest setting. It doesn't look the prettiest whilst mixing but keep going until smooth.

Step 8

Make sure you are watching the consistency of the dough as you add the egg. You don't want it to go too runny. It needs to be thick enough to be a pipeable consistency that can hold it's shape.

Step 9

At this point the dough should be ready to pipe. Transfer your dough into a piping bag (I use a 1A nozzle). Pipe small balls onto your baking sheet with a little space between each ball. I make about 15 with this amount.

Step 10

Once they've all been piped, wet your finger and dab the top of each ball to help with the shape. Gently flatten any pointy bits.

Step 11

You can gently brush a little egg or milk on top of each ball but only if you have some spare as it's not necessary.

Step 12

Place in the oven at 220C / 200C Fan for 10 minutes. Then reduce the temperature of the oven to 170C / 150C Fan for a further 15 minutes until puffy and golden. Never open the oven until they are ready to be taken out.

Step 13

Remove from the oven and pierce the bottom of each profiterole with a skewer and place them upside down to let the steam out, otherwise they will be soggy inside. Allow to cool down in a warm area - I usually do this by putting them back in the oven, turned off with the door ajar - do this for about 20 minutes.

Step 14

Store in an airtight container if you aren't planning to use them immediately.

Step 15

Pour your double cream into a bowl and add your icing sugar to it. Whisk it together until it forms stiff peaks, but be careful to not over whisk it.

Step 16

In a bowl place half your sugar and your egg yolks. Whisk together and then add your corn flour, whisk further until combined.

Step 17

In a saucepan heat up the other half of your sugar, the milk and the vanilla extract. Bring to a gentle boil and then straight away turn off the heat.

Step 18

Add a small amount of the milk to your mixture of eggs/flour/sugar/vanilla and whisk until combined.

Step 19

Then pour this all back into the saucepan, and on a medium heat whisk for about a minute until thickened.

Step 20

Add your butter and remove from the heat, stirring so that it melts in evenly.

Step 21

Pour into a bowl and cover with clingfilm immediately - ensure the cling film touches the creme pat so that a skin doesn't form. Chill on the side briefly, before putting in the fridge to fully cool (this takes a few hours).

Step 22

Simply cut each choux bun in half and add your filling using a spoon. I pipe mine it by placing the filling into a piping bag with a star nozzle. But either works just as well!

Step 23

Finish with melted dark chocolate and you're done!