chouquette

plural chouquettes

1. A small choux pastry made with dough sprinkled with sugar.

   When I pop into my favorite boulangerie for a snack, I know I’ll probably leave with a bag of chouquettes.

   2021, Molly Wilkinson, “Chouquettes”, in French Pastry Made Simple: Foolproof Recipes for Éclairs, Tarts, Macarons and More, Salem, Mass.: Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN

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   The chouquette clung to the most secret membranes of my palate, its sensual softness embraced my cheeks, its indecent elasticity caused it to congeal immediately in a homogeneous and unctuous paste which the sweetness of the sugar enhanced with a hint of perfection.

   2009, Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson, “The Illumination: Rue de Grenelle, the Bedroom”, in The Gourmet, London: Gallic Books, →ISBN, page 120

   “Let me show you how to do the chouquettes. I keep thinking it'd be fun to cut this thin and stringy like spaghetti, drizzle on some chocolate and powder, and call them "chouquettis." But that's crazy! Yeah. [grunts, pants]” “Wait, Bertie, that's such a good idea. What if we made them your way?” “Now? During actual business hours?” “Well, Pastry Pete did leave you in charge for the day.” “Hmm.”

   2019 May 3, Lee Sung Jin, “The New Bird” (14:47 from the start), in Tuca & Bertie, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Bertie Songthrush (Ali Wong)

   The pop-ups, most of them in Paris, vary in cuisine, ambition and price. They include a food hall around the Palais de Tokyo selling chouquettes, bao and gazpacho alongside a virtual-reality swimming experience (85 euros, to start), […]

   2024 July 15, Priya Krishna, “France’s Approach to the Olympics: Food, With a Side of Games”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2024