diff --git a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/retrytopic.adoc b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/retrytopic.adoc
index cd38c3fa..539ed1fd 100644
--- a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/retrytopic.adoc
+++ b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/asciidoc/retrytopic.adoc
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ public RetryTopicConfiguration myRetryTopic(KafkaTemplate<String, MyPojo> templa
             .newInstance()
             .fixedBackoff(3000)
             .maxAttempts(4)
-            .build();
+            .create(template);
 }
 ----
 ====
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ public RetryTopicConfiguration myRetryTopic(KafkaTemplate<String, MyPojo> templa
             .newInstance()
             .customBackOff(new MyCustomBackOffPolicy())
             .maxAttempts(5)
-            .build();
+            .create(template);
 }
 ----
 ====
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ public RetryTopicConfiguration myRetryTopic(KafkaTemplate<String, MyPojo> templa
             .fixedBackoff(3000)
             .maxAttempts(5)
             .useSingleTopicForFixedDelays()
-            .build();
+            .create(template);
 }
 ----
 ====
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ public RetryTopicConfiguration myRetryTopic(KafkaTemplate<String, MyPojo> templa
             .newInstance()
             .fixedBackoff(2000)
             .timeoutAfter(5000)
-            .build();
+            .create(template);
 }
 ----
 ====