How to Make Pâte à Choux (Choux Pastry)
Learn how to make pâte à choux, also known as choux pastry for sweet and savory treats. When baked, the pastry turns golden brown and creates a hollow shell that can be filled with cream, custard, ice cream, or cheese.
Pâte à Choux or choux pastry is a classic French dough used to make a variety of elegant baked and fried desserts and appetizers. The recipe is simply a combination of water, salt, sugar, butter, flour add eggs. It requires lightly cooking the flour in the dough first, whipping with eggs into a thick paste then piping into desired shapes.
I use a gradual and gentle baking process to ensure that the pastry completely dries inside with golden brown exteriors. When baked, the dough puffs up, yielding crispy, hollow shells begging to be filled. When fried the pasty is chewy in texture, making for an addicting donut-style fritter.