What are light cream filled tubular cakes made from choux pastry called
Choux pastry and often filled with pastry cream, much like eclairs. Choux pastry Choux pastry, or (), is a light pastry dough used to make profiteroles, , éclairs, French crullers, , St. Honoré cake, quenelles, Parisian gnocchi, dumplings, , , and churros. It contains only butter, water, flour and eggs. Instead of a raising agent, it employs high moisture content to create steam during cooking to puff the pastry. The pastry is used in many European and European-derived cuisines. According to some cookbooks, a chef by the name of Pantarelli or Pantanelli invented the dough in 1540, seven years after he left
Choux pastry is usually baked but for beignets it is fried. In Spain and Latin America, churros are made of fried choux pastry, sugared and dipped in a thick hot chocolate for breakfast. In Austrian cuisine, one variation of , a sweet apricot dumpling cooked in simmering water, uses choux pastry; in that case it does not puff, but remains relatively dense. Choux pastries are sometimes filled with cream after baking to make cream puffs or éclairs. , named for the diminutive of , are small, round, hollow choux pastry covered with large-grain sugar. are covered in a "crackly" sugar topping —