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

List of recipes using Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
Gougères
Gougères
Gougères are small cheese choux pastries, sometimes (like here) with bits of ham.
234K 13.8 56 min. February 21th 2011
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.
213K4.8 1 hour 25 min. September 10th 2018
Mini Mont-Blanc choux puffs
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.
49K 1 hour 43 min. March 17th 2019
Paris-Brest
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.
179K4.6 2 hours 18 min. May 8th 2011
Pets de nonne
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...].
61K4.1 45 min. June 18th 2014
Profiteroles
Profiteroles
Small choux pastry puffs, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with a rich smooth chocolate sauce.
300K 14.5 1 hour 35 min. October 13th 2010
Puits d'amour
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.
103K4.4 1 hour 43 min. August 23th 2015
Saint Honoré cake
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.
112K4.7 2 hours 51 min. April 14th 2013
Valay-Brest
Valay-Brest
A Valay-Brest is a mini eclair, filled with apple-flavoured confectioner's custard and topped with a rectangle of walnut nougatine.
64K4.1 1 hour 28 min. May 14th 2014

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