Crème Chiboust

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    500 ml

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Damien Pignolet

Published 2005

  • About

Use this light-textured crème to fill choux puffs or a pre-cooked tart shell destined to be covered with fresh berries. A candy thermometer is an essential piece of equipment for this recipe.

Ingredients

  • 100 g white sugar
  • 120 ml egg whites [about 4

Method

  1. In a small saucepan over a low heat, dissolve the 100g of sugar in 50ml of water, ensuring that the sugar is fully dissolved before the water boils. Have a clean pastry brush sitting in a dish of cold water to brush down any syrup that may splatter around the inside of the saucepan as it boils - this keeps all the syrup cooking at the same temperature. The aim is to reac