# List of choux pastry dishes

This is a list of choux pastry dishes. Choux pastry, or pâte à choux, is a light pastry dough that contains only butter, water, flour and eggs. The high moisture content of the dough causes it to produce steam when cooked, which puffs the pastry.

## Choux pastry dishes

| Name | Type | Origin | Description |
| Beignet | Sweet | France | Deep-fried, often topped with powdered sugar. |
| Bossche bol or reuzenbol | Sweet | Netherlands | A large Dutch profiterole, filled with whipped cream and coated entirely with chocolate. |
| Cheese puff | Savory | Caribbean | A choux pastry ball (profiterole) filled with cheese paste. |
| Chicken puff | Savory | Caribbean | A choux pastry ball (profiterole) filled with chicken paste. |
| Chouquette | Sweet | France | A small portion of choux pastry sprinkled with pearl sugar and sometimes filled with custard or mousse. A chouquette can also be dipped in chocolate or covered in chocolate chips. |
| Chouxnut | Sweet | U.S. | A doughnut-shaped choux pastry sometimes filled with custard and topped with icing or glaze. |
| Crab puff | Savory | Caribbean | A choux pastry ball (profiterole) filled with crab paste. |
| Cream puff | Sweet | U.S. | See Profiterole |
| Croquembouche | Sweet | France | A French dessert consisting of choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. |
| Éclair | Sweet | France | An oblong pastry filled with a cream and topped with icing. |
| Gougère | Savory | France | A baked savory pastry made of choux dough mixed with cheese. |
| Karpatka | Sweet | Poland | A cake made of one sheet of short pastry on the bottom and one sheet of choux pastry on the top (or two sheets of choux pastry), filled with custard or buttercream. Usually served with fruit or ice cream. The cake derives its name from Carpathian Mountains – the top layer resembles their rough peaks and valleys. |
| Kok | Sweet | Greece | A cream puff with a chocolate glaze sometimes topped with nuts. |
| Lady's navel | Sweet | Turkey | Made from balls of choux pastry which are given a dimple, deep-fried and then soaked in syrup. |
| Moorkop | Sweet | Netherlands | A type of Dutch profiterole. |
| Nun's puffs | Sweet | France | The choux is pan-fried before baking. |
| Paris-Brest | Sweet | France | Made of choux pastry and a praline flavored cream, shaped round like a wheel for the bicycle race for which it is named. |
| Pommes dauphine | Savory | France | Crisp potato puffs made by mixing mashed potatoes with savory choux pastry, forming the mixture into dumpling shapes, and then deep-frying. |
| Profiterole | Sweet | France | A French dessert choux pastry ball filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, custard, or (particularly in the US) ice cream. Commonly known as a cream puff in the U.S. It is the national food of Gibraltar. |
| Religieuse | Sweet | France | Made of two choux pastry cases, one larger than the other, filled with crème pâtissière, mostly commonly chocolate or mocha. |
| St. Honoré cake | Sweet | France | A circle of puff pastry at its base with a ring of choux piped on the outer edge. This base is traditionally filled with crème chiboust and finished with whipped cream using a special St. Honoré piping tip. |
| Tuna puff | Savory | Caribbean | A choux pastry ball (profiterole) filled with tuna paste. |