Meanings
plural choux pastries · alternative chou pastry
- countableuncountableA type of light pastry (made just from butter, water, flour and eggs) that is used to make profiteroles, éclairs, chouquettes, etc.
If you don't get your choux pastry just right, the profiteroles will taste foul.
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Similarly, choux pastry is a much beloved and ultraversatile pastry that is truly unlike any other. Where most pastries—such as a short pastry used in tarts—rely on minimal gluten activation to maximize crispiness and tenderness, choux pastry […]
2013, Holly Herrick, The French Cook - Cream Puffs & Eclairs, Gibbs Smith, →ISBNSynonyms: choux paste, cream puff pastry
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of light pastry (made just from butter, water, flour and eggs) that is used to make profiteroles, éclairs, chouquettes, etc.
Origin
Partial calque of French pâte à choux.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bengali শূ পেস্ট্রী
- শূ পেস্ট্রী (śu pesṭri)light pastry
Czech odpalované těsto
- odpalované těstolight pastry
Dutch sous
- souslight pastry
French pâte à choux
- pâte à chouxlight pastry
German Brandteig, Brandmasse
- Brandteiglight pastry
- Brandmasselight pastry
- Brühteiglight pastry
Italian pasta choux
- pasta chouxlight pastry
Polish ciasto parzone
- ciasto parzonelight pastry
Russian заварно́е те́сто
- заварно́е те́сто (zavarnóje tésto)light pastry
Spanish pasta choux
- pasta chouxlight pastry
Cite this entry
choux pastry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choux%20pastry
“choux pastry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choux%20pastry. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “choux pastry,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/choux%20pastry.
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