Einkorn Craquelin for “Pâte à Choux”

If you love beautiful cakes like I do, it’s a good idea to learn a little trick that can beautify any “Pâte à Choux”.

Craquelin is a French cookie that most pastry chefs use to make their Choux Pastry look beautiful, fortunately it is super easy to make at home and it can be a great help if you want beautiful cream puffs for a special occasion, it is also delicious underneath a chocolate glace, like a little “caramel surprise”!

As the name suggests a “craquelin” is a crackling cookie that melts into the choux pastry. You could call it a little cake accessory that creates a crispy caramelization on top of your cakes, which helps the choux pastry to form evenly and yes, it also tastes great if you make it with proper ingredients.

It’s super easy to make but you have to remember to prepare the dough before making your choux pastry. I made this recipe with coconut sugar, home milled einkorn and salted butter.

So let’s make some Craquelin!

Einkorn Craquelin for Choux Pastry

A crispy caramelized surprise that only will make your choux pastry prettier!

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

In the Freezer: 30 minutes minutes

Course: Cake

Cuisine: Baking, Pastry

Keyword: Choux Pastry, craquelin, Einkorn

Ingredients

• 50 g Salted Butter (cut in cubes)
• 50 g Coconut Sugar
• 50 g Einkorn Flour (Home milled or Jovial All-Purpose)

Instructions

• Weigh the ingredients and leave the butter until it has softened.
  
• Put all ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix them together with one hand as fast as possible.
  
• In less than two minutes it should look like this.
  
• Press it onto a piece of parchment paper.
  
• Put another piece on top.
  
• Roll it in one direction only and turn the paper for every time you roll.
  
• When the sheet of dough is 3-4mm it's ready to transfer onto a board and put it into the freezer for 30 minutes.
  
• When your choux pastry is ready, you can cut out the craquelin with a cutter that fits your cakes.
  
• This is the size I use for my cream puffs.
  
• Place each craquelin on top of your choux pastries.
  
• Bake the choux pastries according to the recipe. The link for the Choux Pastry is below.
  
• This is how your choux pastries could look after baking, with a pretty crispy craquelin cookie on top, enjoy!
  

Notes

The recipe for Choux Pastry is right here!

I hope you will enjoy this simple addition to the choux pastry recipe, you can easily make it without a craquelin, but if you are trying to make a beautiful choux pastry the craquelin will help you out.

Have a Blessed day!

Much Love in Christ

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