Saint-Honoré

Name: Saint-Honoré
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 250g puff pastry; Choux pastry: water, butter, flour and eggs; Crème pâtissière lightened with whipped cream or Italian meringue; Caramel: 200g sugar and a little water; Whipped cream, for piping

Gâteau Saint-Honoré/san oh-noh-RAY/

Also known as: Gateau Saint Honore, St Honore Cake

About this dish

A puff pastry base crowned with a ring of caramel-dipped cream puffs and filled with light chiboust or whipped cream.

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Ingredients

🥐250g puff pastry

🥚Choux pastry: water, butter, flour and eggs

🥛Crème pâtissière lightened with whipped cream or Italian meringue

🍬Caramel: 200g sugar and a little water

🥛Whipped cream, for piping

Method

Serves 4

Cut a disc of puff pastry, pipe a ring of choux around the edge and pipe small choux buns on a separate tray.

Bake until puffed and golden, then fill the small buns with crème pâtissière.

Dip the tops of the buns in caramel and stick them around the pastry ring with more caramel.

Fill the centre with the lightened cream.

Pipe whipped cream decoratively with a Saint-Honoré nozzle and chill briefly.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Gâteau Saint-Honoré is named after the patron saint of bakers and was created in a pâtisserie on Paris's rue Saint-Honoré.

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