variants
or less commonly choux paste
: a very light, egg-based dough used to make pastries (such as cream puffs and éclairs )
Choux pastry is preferred cooked before freezing and filled after thawing …—
Margaret Leach et al.
Margaret Leach et al.I fell for choux paste, aka cream-puff dough, early in my cooking career.—Sara Dickerman
Sara Dickermancalled also pate a choux
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These delicate desserts are made using a base of pâte à choux, or choux pastry.
—Molly Allen, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
The choux pastry is baked and cooled and then filled with pastry cream before being topped with a chocolate glaze or chocolate ganache to complete the delicious treat.
—Molly Allen, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
Other newcomers specialize in vegan tacos on dragon fruit tortillas, or both sweet and savory choux pastries.
—Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
Also known as cream puffs or chou à la crème, profiteroles are one of a handful of desserts that showcase French choux pastry.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2022
The idea that contestants could break out into song while piping choux pastry doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
Speaking of cake, desserts included a squishy square of it, soaked in cardamom syrup and topped with saffron ice cream, second only to the noon e khamei, ethereal, crackly choux pastry sandwiching dreamy rosewater cream.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Mini Beignets, pg. 188, made with choux pastry, are rolled in caster sugar, chamomile and toasted anise seed.
—Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
And for dessert, Lopez has her own churro recipe, made to order with a French pâte à choux pastry dough.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
Molly Allen, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
The choux pastry is baked and cooled and then filled with pastry cream before being topped with a chocolate glaze or chocolate ganache to complete the delicious treat.
—Molly Allen, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2023
Other newcomers specialize in vegan tacos on dragon fruit tortillas, or both sweet and savory choux pastries.
—Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
Also known as cream puffs or chou à la crème, profiteroles are one of a handful of desserts that showcase French choux pastry.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2022
The idea that contestants could break out into song while piping choux pastry doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
Speaking of cake, desserts included a squishy square of it, soaked in cardamom syrup and topped with saffron ice cream, second only to the noon e khamei, ethereal, crackly choux pastry sandwiching dreamy rosewater cream.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Mini Beignets, pg. 188, made with choux pastry, are rolled in caster sugar, chamomile and toasted anise seed.
—Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
And for dessert, Lopez has her own churro recipe, made to order with a French pâte à choux pastry dough.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
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