List of recipes using "Choux pastry": 11 recipes

Gougères

Gougères are small cheese choux pastries, sometimes (like here) with bits of ham.
224K 13.8 56 min. February 21^th 2011

Chocolate eclairs

This might appear to be a straightforward recipe: choux pastry, chocolate confectioner's custard and fondant icing, but in practice it is quite technically tricky and all three stages need care to produce a perfect result. But don't let that discourage you; there are demonstration videos and I will...
275K 34.5 3 hours 52 min. February 6^th 2011

Elsa's Comtoise galette

This galette is a classic Comtois dessert that resembles choux pastry (pâte à choux).
76K4 46 min. January 20^th 2013

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.
31K 1 hour 43 min. March 17^th 2019

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.
168K4.6 2 hours 18 min. May 8^th 2011

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...].
52K4.1 45 min. June 18^th 2014

Profiteroles

Small choux pastry puffs, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with a rich smooth chocolate sauce.
289K 14.5 1 hour 35 min. October 13^th 2010

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.
89K4.4 1 hour 43 min. August 23^th 2015

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.
100K4.7 2 hours 51 min. April 14^th 2013

Choux pastry (pâte à choux)

Choux pastry is used for making profiteroles, eclairs and other small pastries.
496K4.5 1 hour 4 min. February 13^th 2022

Craquelin (sweet cracker dough)

This sweet cracker dough ("craquelin" in French) is a very simple mixture: equal parts of flour, butter and light brown sugar. It is simlilar to a shortbread dough and can be rolled out very thinly and cut into any shape as desired. Craquelin is mostly used (though not exclusively) on top of choux...
66K5 54 min. February 10^th 2019