Hot Toddy Choux Buns

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    16 to 18

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Hebridean Baker: Recipes and Wee Stories from the Scottish Islands

By Coinneach MacLeod

Published 2021

  • About

This recipe reignites the Auld Alliance of 1295 between Scotland and France. This treaty stipulated that if either country were attacked by the English, the other would invade England. Let’s keep this alliance more peaceful by blending the best of French pastry and Scottish flavours. Chou is the French for cabbage – and, delightfully, mon petit chou can be used to address your sweetheart … These wee cabbage-shaped pastry buns are filled with a honey and whisky flavoured crème