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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 10^th 2018

Keywords for this recipe:Choux Choux puffs Chouquettes Sugar Pastry

For 25 Chouquettes, you will need:

0 450 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
1 20 g beaten egg
2 30 g Pearl sugar
3 30 g caster sugar
4 100 g strawberries (optional)
5 4 tablespoons Chantilly cream (optional)
Total weight: 690 grams

Change these quantities to make: 25 Chouquettes 50 Chouquettes 75 Chouquettes

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 43 min.

Prepare 450 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux), but add 3 times the sugar of the original recipe.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

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

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.

Glaze the tops of the heaps.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

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.

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

Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Your chouquettes are ready.

Stage 8

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

Stage 9

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

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.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,100 Kcal or 8,792 Kj	33 gr	205 gr	127 gr
105 %	13 %	19 %	19 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
304 Kcal or 1,273 Kj	5 gr	30 gr	18 gr
15 %	2 %	3 %	3 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
84 Kcal or 352 Kj	1 gr	8 gr	5 gr
4 %	1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 25 Chouquettes : 2.19 €
Per Chouquettes : 0.09 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

Home made.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Choux pastry (pâte à choux): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Paris-Brest, Valay-Brest, Gougères, Puits d'amour, Profiteroles, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Meringues, Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette", Flambéd bananas , Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Caramelised walnuts, ... All
	Pearl sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Grapefruit moelleux, Brioche feuilletée (flaky brioche), Milk rolls, Benoîton, Flaky brownie brioche, ... All
	Beaten egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, Wiener Schnitzel, Dublin fruit scones, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, St Tropez tart, ... All

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