diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-consul.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-consul.adoc
index c13668f2..02c845cc 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-consul.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-consul.adoc
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ If you want to access service STORES using the RestTemplate simply declare:
 @LoadBalanced
 @Bean
 public RestTemplate loadbalancedRestTemplate() {
-     new RestTemplate();
+     return new RestTemplate();
 }
 ----