{"id":242,"date":"2011-12-01T14:12:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/?p=242"},"modified":"2012-03-03T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T21:07:23","slug":"choux-beautiful-buttery-choux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/choux-beautiful-buttery-choux\/","title":{"rendered":"Choux, Beautiful Buttery Choux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also known as cream puffs, choux pastry has to be one of my favorites, especially when filled with rich mousse.\u00a0 These however, I did not make for that purpose.<\/p>\n

\"\"Some time ago, for a reason I can not now remember, I picked these up for my children.\u00a0 What was I thinking?\u00a0 Frozen eggs?! *shudder*\u00a0 Anyway, with the inexplicable bad taste of youth that inevitable prefers food out of a box to lovingly hand crafted dishes, they loved them.\u00a0 Since then, I have been trying to find a home-made option that will satisfy my little ones.\u00a0 Now, I am a very fond parent, and I love baking, but croissants go above and beyond what I am willing to do.\u00a0 I have made them from scratch, and perhaps now that I have a kitchen larger than a closet and am no longer having to use the top of a hot water heater as counter space, I might try them again, but make them on a weekly basis I will not.<\/p>\n

Biscuits would be sensible and traditional, but my children find them too dry for breakfast sandwiches.\u00a0 I had despaired and taken to buying the cursed frozen egg things at Costco from time to time as a treat.\u00a0 Then one day it hit me.\u00a0 Choux!\u00a0 If you have never made choux, you are in for a treat.\u00a0 It is a pastry that begins from a roux, can you think of anything more decadent?\u00a0 I think of the dough as essence of cream sauce. This is my recipe from my trusty old Better Homes and Garden red book.<\/p>\n