Chouquettes

The closest thing that traditional French baking has to a doughnut is a chouquette, a small puff of choux pastry topped with crunchy pearl sugar. French patisseries sell them by the bagful as an afternoon snack to hungry schoolchildren. Paris-based pastry chef and author David Lebovitz is credited with introducing chouquettes to an American audience.

Chouquettes are surprisingly easy to make and take less than 20 minutes to bake in the air fryer. The only tricky part will lik