Chouquettes


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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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 1 hour
Cooking: 25 min.
All in all: 1 hour 25 min.
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Stage 1 - ⌛ 45 min.
Chouquettes : Stage 1
Prepare 450 g choux pastry (pâte à choux), but add 3 times the sugar of the original recipe.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 10 min.
Chouquettes : Stage 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).

Stage 3
Chouquettes : Stage 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.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 2 min.
Chouquettes : Stage 4
Glaze the tops of the heaps.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 5 min.
Chouquettes : Stage 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.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 25 min.
Chouquettes : Stage 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.

Stage 7
Chouquettes : Stage 7
Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Your chouquettes are ready.

Stage 8
Chouquettes : Stage 8
Here's a variation for the summer: cut the cold chouquettes in half horizontally with a serrated knife.

Stage 9
Chouquettes : Stage 9
Wash 100 g strawberries, remove the stalks and cut into small dice. Mix with 4 tablespoons Chantilly cream.

Stage 10
Chouquettes : Stage 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.
Keeping: 1 or 2 days in a closed metal box.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe130 RDI=50 %620 RDI=60 %470 RDI=70 %1,940 RDI=100 %8,140 RDI: 100 %
Per 100 g20 RDI=9 %120 RDI=10 %90 RDI=10 %370 RDI=20 %1,540 RDI: 20 %
Per piece5 RDI=2 %20 RDI=2 %20 RDI=3 %80 RDI=4 %330 RDI: 4 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman
Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, Gluten, egg
How much will it cost?
  • For 25 Chouquettes : 1.35 €
  • Per Chouquettes : 0.10 €

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Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
Choux pastry (pâte à choux)

You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Saint Honoré cake, Puits d'amour, Valay-Brest, Gougères, Pets de nonne, ... See them all 8

Pearl sugar
Pearl sugar

Like these other recipes: Benoîton, Grapefruit moelleux, Mouna, Cramique, Liège waffles, ... See them all 9

Beaten egg
Beaten egg

You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cramique, Small foie gras pasties, French croissants, "Psychedelic" sandwich bread, Snails in a brioche, ... See them all 80

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