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The full term is commonly said to be a corruption of French pâte à chaud (lit. ' hot pastry/dough ').The term "choux" has two meanings in the early literature. One is a kind of cheese puff, first documented in the 13th century; the other corresponds to the modern choux pastry and is documented in English, German, and French cookbooks in the 16th century.
A doughnut-shaped choux pastry sometimes filled with custard and topped with icing or glaze. Crab puff Savory Caribbean A choux pastry ball (profiterole) filled with crab paste. Cream puff Sweet U.S. See Profiterole: Croquembouche: Sweet France A French dessert consisting of choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel ...
A plate of cream puffs. Cream puffs have appeared on U.S. restaurant menus since at least 1851. [18] The Wisconsin State Fair is known for its giant cream puffs. [19] [20] In Hawaii, coco puffs (not to be confused with Cocoa Puffs) made by Liliha Bakery are a popular dessert.
In baking, a flaky pastry (also known as a "quick puff pastry" or "blitz puff pastry") [35] is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry, similar to a puff pastry. The main difference is that in a flaky pastry, large lumps of shortening (approximately 1-in./2½ cm. across), are mixed into the dough, as opposed to a large rectangle of shortening with a ...
The inside of a gougère. A gougère (French:), in French cuisine, is a baked savory choux pastry made of choux dough mixed with cheese.There are many variants. The cheese is commonly grated Gruyère, Comté, or Emmentaler, [1] [2] but there are many variants using other cheeses or other ingredients.
The oldest known documented recipe for puff pastry in France was included in a charter by Robert, bishop of Amiens in 1311. [5] The first recipe to explicitly use the technique of tourage (the action of encasing solid butter within dough layers, keeping the fat intact and separate, by folding several times) was published in 1651 by François ...
The pastry, round, i.e. wheel-shaped, was created in 1910 by Louis Durand, pâtissier of Maisons-Laffitte, at the request of Pierre Giffard, to commemorate the 1,200 km (750 mi) Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race he had initiated in 1891. [1]
A croquembouche is composed of (usually cream-filled) choux piled into a cone and bound with spun sugar. It may also be decorated with other confectionery, such as sugared almonds, chocolate, and edible flowers. Sometimes it is covered in macarons or ganache. [2] [3]