List of recipes using Choux pastry (pâte à choux): 9 recipes

Gougères

Gougères are small cheese choux pastries, sometimes (like here) with bits of ham.
February 21^th 2011240 K 13.8 60 min.

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.
September 10^th 2018220 K4.8 1 hour 25 min.

Mini Mont-Blanc choux puffs

These mini choux puffs are topped with a layer of craquelin and filled with Mont-Blanc cream: a mixture of whipped cream and sweetened chestnut purée.
March 17^th 201956 K 1 hour 45 min.

Paris-Brest

The Paris-Brest is a famous French patisserie: a ring of choux pastry, scattered with flaked almonds and icing sugar and filled with a praline cream. The name comes from a historic cycle race between Paris and Brest (600 km or 372 miles), as the shape is like a bicycle wheel.
May 8^th 2011187 K4.6 2 hours 20 min.

Pets de nonne

These small fritters are like mini doughnuts: they're simply made with choux pastry dough, then tossed in a little sugar. [Translator's note: their amusing French name literally means "nun's farts". So, maybe we'll leave it French...].
June 18^th 201467 K4.1 45 min.

Profiteroles

Small choux pastry puffs, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with a rich smooth chocolate sauce.
October 13^th 2010306 K 14.5 1 hour 35 min.

Puits d'amour

This delicious little cake's charming French name means "well of love". It is made up of layers of puff and choux pastry, assembled with a light caramel and filled with vanilla confectioner's custard.
August 23^th 2015112 K4.4 1 hour 45 min.

Saint Honoré cake

The Saint Honoré cake is a famous example of French patisserie. It consists of a puff pastry base surrounded by a ring of caramel-coated choux puffs and topped with whipped cream (Chantilly). It is a bit tricky to make, but this recipe gives you all the hints you need.
April 14^th 2013119 K4.7 2 hours 55 min.

Valay-Brest

A Valay-Brest is a mini eclair, filled with apple-flavoured confectioner's custard and topped with a rectangle of walnut nougatine.
May 14^th 201470 K4.1 1 hour 30 min.