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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

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

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Time required

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour	25 min.	1 hour 25 min.

Keeping:

1 or 2 days in a closed metal box.

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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.

Nutritional information

% 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 : 3.23 €
Per Chouquettes : 0.13 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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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: Pets de nonne, Paris-Brest, Gougères, Valay-Brest, Puits d'amour, ... All
	Pearl sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Liège waffles, Benoîton, Grapefruit moelleux, Cramique, Milk rolls, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette", Pets de nonne, Bounty-style tart for Alison, Crème brulée, Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), ... All
	Beaten egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: 3-fruit brioche loaf, Burger buns, Galette de Fougerolles, Cochelin d'Evreux, Cramique, ... All

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