Chouquettes
Chouquettes are small choux puffs with sugar crystals on the top. They are usually eaten plain, but can also be filled with a variety of things: cream, fruit, chocolate... whatever you like.
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Last modified on: September 10th 2018
For 25 Chouquettes, you will need:
- 1 : 450 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
- 2 : 20 g beaten egg
- 3 : 30 g Pearl sugar
- 4 : 30 g caster sugar
- 5 : 100 g strawberries (optional)
- 6 : 4 tablespoons Chantilly cream (optional)
- Total weight: 690 grams
How long does it take?
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
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| 1 hour | 25 min. | 1 hour 25 min. |
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Step by step recipe
| 1 |  | Prepare 450 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux), but add 3 times the sugar of the original recipe. | 43 min. |
| 2 |  | Make small regular heaps with the choux pastry on a baking sheet, about the size of a Euro or pound coin (1.5 cm or half an inch). | 10 min. |
| 3 |  | As always with this sort of work, you'll find a forcing bag very useful. If you don't have one, use 2 teaspoons: one to scoop up the mixture from the pan, the other to push it out. |
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| 4 |  | Glaze the tops of the heaps. | 2 min. |
| 5 |  | Throw 30 g Pearl sugar onto the heaps with a short sharp gesture which will help the crystals stick to the beaten egg. Finish with a dusting of caster sugar, or granulated sugar if you have some. |
5 min. |
| 6 |  | Put in the oven immediately at 210°C (420°F) for about 25 minutes. Watch the colouration carefully, and turn the sheet back to front if the cooking is not even. | 25 min. |
| 7 |  | Leave to cool on a wire rack. Your chouquettes are ready. |
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| 8 |  | Here's a variation for the summer: cut the cold chouquettes in half horizontally with a serrated knife. | |
| 9 |  | Wash 100 g strawberries, remove the stalks and cut into small dice. Mix with 4 tablespoons Chantilly cream. | |
| 10 |  | Fill the chouquette halves and replace the tops. |
Remarks
Please note, chouquettes do not keep well. You can keep them in an airtight tin for just a day or two, but after this they tend to dry out. If filled with cream they keep even less well, just a few hours in the fridge.
Nutritional information
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How much will it cost?
For 25 Chouquettes : 2.07 €
Per Chouquettes : 0.08 €
Source: Home made.
More recipes?
This recipe use (among others) | Choux pastry (pâte à choux): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Paris-Brest, Saint Honoré cake, Puits d'amour, Pets de nonne, Profiteroles, ... [All] |
 | Pearl sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Milk rolls, Brioche feuilletée (flaky brioche), Benoîton, Cramique, Flaky brownie brioche, ... [All] |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Arizona cupcakes, Grandma Solange's biscuits, Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette", Passion fruit jellies, Brioche Tatin, ... [All] |
 | Beaten egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cramique, Rustic chicken and mushroom pie, Flaky chocolate brioche, Agen prune cake, Vol-au-vent cases, ... [All] |
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