choux pastry

noun

ˈshü-

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.

I fell for choux paste, aka cream-puff dough, early in my cooking career.—

Sara Dickerman

called also pate a choux

Examples of choux pastry in a Sentence

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Éclair and Artistic Gymnastics Similar to cream puffs, éclairs are based on choux pastry. —

Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for choux pastry

Word History

Etymology

partial translation of French pâte à choux, literally, "pastry in the form of cabbages"; choux, plural of chou "cabbage," going back to Middle French, back-formation from chous, plural of chol, going back to Old French, going back to Latin caulis "stalk, stem, cabbage stem, cabbage" — more at cole

First Known Use

1878, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of choux pastry was in 1878

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