First, a French friend brings a spectacular homemade dessert to dinner. It’s a Paris-Brest — a large ring of choux paste sliced horizontally, filled with praline pastry cream and whipped cream and ...

This week it’s the turn of crisp, decadent choux pastry, with these recipes for chocolate eclairs spiked with bright, sharp berries, and bonfire-night ready, dairy-free choux doughnuts, stuffed with ...

Pâte à choux is a versatile dough that can be sweet or savory. Here's how to make it correctly. Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College ...

Preheat oven to 220°C. Grease and line two baking sheets. Sift the flour into a bowl, then set it aside. In a medium saucepan, bring water, butter, sugar and salt to a boil over medium-high heat, ...

Make the most of the first autumn pears with a super-light choux pastry treat I used to be mad about eclairs as a child. I must have got through my own body weight in them, but it wasn’t until many ...

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...

Choux puffs filled with creme patissiere and stacked in a cone with a spun sugar exoskeleton were the height of wedding chic in certain circles when many of my friends started getting married. Then, ...

First, a French friend brings a spectacular homemade dessert to dinner. It’s a Paris-Brest -- a large ring of choux paste sliced horizontally, filled with praline pastry cream and whipped cream and ...

Choux pastry is extremely versatile and can be used to create sumptuous rich deserts as well a more unusual savoury dishes. Place the water, milk, sugar and salt together in a heavy based pan over a ...