Along with puff pastries, which are notoriously time-consuming to make, choux pastry and crème Chiboust aren't cakewalks, either. If just one misses the mark, it ruins the entire dessert.

They combine two basic pastry components: a pâte à choux, a dough used in a lot of French pastry applications made of flour, butter, milk, water, and eggs, and pastry cream. Once you’ve ...

Along the way, she sampled desserts ... are purveyors of choux au craquelin at The Shops of Tanforan in San Bruno, baking them fresh throughout the day, starting early. “We make (cream puffs ...