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French Petit Choux

Ingredients

Choux

Sugar Crust

Chantilly Cream

Topping

Instructions

Pate Choux

  • Combine water, butter and sugar and let it boil
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  • Once boil add in flour and stir vigorously
  • Stir the dough until congealed and let it cook for 2 minute.
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  • Rest the dough until room temperature.
  • Once cooled add the eggs and mix until fully combined
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  • Pipe it depending on the prefered size
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Sugar Crust

  • Combine all the ingredient and add any desired colouring.
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  • Let the dough chill.
  • Once chilled roll it and using round cookie cutter cut the dough the same size as the piped choux.
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  • Place it in top and bake in 200c oven for 10 minute and lower the heat to 180c and bake it until golden brown.

Chantilly Cream

  • Beat the whipping cream with 70g of the honey.
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  • Beat until stiff peak and transfer it into a piping bag.
  • Chill it in chiller until it is ready to be used

Assemble

  • Cut the top of the craquelin and then pipe a little bit of the cream
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  • After that spoon some of the remaining honey inside the pastry.
  • Top it of with the remaining cream.
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  • Close it with the cut craquelin.
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  • Decorate it with some drop of honey and gold flake.
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