Strawberry Choux Buns are filled with strawberry cream and topped with strawberry icing! They are the best choux buns I’ve ever tasted and I think you’ll agree once you’ve made them!
This recipe is one that I have re-created from a one-off childhood memory of some beautiful, heavenly Strawberry Choux Buns.
My mother made them for my grandmother’s coffee morning when we were staying with my grandparents one summer in Denmark. There was no actual recipe, she just put them together from her own inspiration.
To my knowledge she never made them again but they were so wonderful, the memory of them lived on.
I recall sneaking to the fridge before the party and thinking, they won’t miss another one will they.
To me they were the best thing I had ever tasted!
The thing that set these Choux buns apart from any I’d ever had before, was the delicious strawberry icing and the crushed strawberry and whipped cream filling.
The first person to try one of my buns was my daughter’s piano teacher and she loved it.
My children and husband also loved them which was just as well as I made far too many (22) and even had to do a mercy dash to my parents to distribute the booty.
Therefore in the following recipe there is enough dough for 24 but filling for just 12 with the idea that you freeze the other 12 buns for the future (they thaw rapidly). Why not invent your own topping/filling for the rest!
The basic choux recipe has been adapted from a Herald Series article by Helen Peacocke.
How to make Strawberry Choux Buns
More Strawberry Recipes
For more strawberry inspiration check out these recipes:
- White Chocolate & Strawberry Mousse
- One Punnet Strawberry Jam (1st Prize Winning)
- Strawberry Banocolate Muffins
- Rhubarb & Strawberry Grunt
- Rødgrød med Fløde (Danish Red Berry Compote with Cream)
- Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk
- Strawberry & Coconut Milkshake
- Strawberry Tarts
- Strawberry Shortcake
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Strawberry Choux Buns
Ingredients
- 125 g / 4oz butter
- 125 g / 4oz plain flour
- 285 ml / ½ pint water
- 4 free range eggs
- Pinch salt
- For filling:
- 150 ml Whipping Cream
- 200 g Strawberries crushed over a sieve
- 1 tbsp Icing sugar
- For icing:
- 250 g Icing sugar
- 50 ml Strawberry juice from crushed strawberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220C/425F or gas mark 7.
- Grease and flour a 2 large flat baking trays to prevent the buns from sticking as they cook.
- Place the water and butter into a saucepan and heat until the butter has melted.
- Using a whisk mix in the flour and salt, and beat really well over a moderate heat until the mix begins to form into a soft ball.
- Remove from the heat and beat in the eggs one by one.
- At this stage you should have a smooth shiny paste.
- Using a couple of spoons or a piping bag, place rounds of the paste on the greased tray.
- Size is up to you, as long as you remember that if cooked properly, they will double in size, so leave enough room for them to expand.
- Bake in hot oven for ten minutes and then, without opening the oven door, turn the heat down to 190C/375F or gas mark 5.
- Leave to cook a further ten minutes before carefully opening the oven door.
- When the choux buns are golden brown and puffed to twice their original size, they are done.
- For best effect, turn the oven off when they are done and make an incision in the side of each bun then allow them to remain in the oven with the door open for another ten minutes to dry out.
- Then slide off onto a wire rack.
- Cut a lid from each choux bun and leave to cool. (If the buns are still a little gooey in the centre, return them to the turned-off oven for 5 minutes to dry out.)
- Now whip the cream and fold in the icing sugar and crushed drained strawberries. Reserve juice.
- Fill by spooning in the strawberry whipped cream and then replace the lids.
- To make icing, put icing sugar in a bowl and stir in reserved strawberry juice in 2-3 lots and spoon over the choux buns.
- Refrigerate for about 1 hr to chill and let the icing set. (If you can wait that long!)
Kate W
This choux recipe didn’t work for me. Very fatty and didn’t rise. I tried again with another recipe – 50g butter, 75g flour, 125ml water and 2 eggs. Baked at 180C fan for 25 minutes. Much better.
The strawberry cream filling is spot on though.
Camilla
Hi Kate, I’m sorry to hear that, the choux part of the recipe was from The Herald (which is no longer online) it worked for me but I’ll put it on my list to make again at some point and see if it needs changing. Glad you enjoyed the recipe otherwise:-)
Angela
Great looking recipe, I love choux buns so much.
Camilla
Thank you Angela, they were divine:-)
Rose
Hi just trying these. Recipe says 570mls water or half a pint. I used 570 mls which I now discover is way more than half a pint and my flour butter mixture never formed a ball. Now wondering whether to abandon them completely or just add egs and see how they go?
Camilla
Oh gosh Rose I am so terribly sorry. I don’t think just adding eggs would work as you’d need twice as much of everything to make it work. I would start again. I will go and correct the recipe now and also double check with my original notes. So sorry once again:-
Paul Wilson
They look soooo good!
Camilla
Thanks, they really are divine:-)
Ursula Hunt
Really delicious, a great cake for my coffee mornings
Munchies and Munchkins
Oh these sound incredible. Wowee.
Camilla
Thank you Becky – they really are:-)
Ursula Hunt
Great to have this recipe in my recipe book
Ann Robinson
As they have strawberries i’m going to count it as one of my five a day !
Paul Wilson
Love Strawberry Choux.
gouldie7
Oh wow! I must have a go at these!
Ann Robinson
These look delicious, i wish i had one to eat now
Paul Wilson
Super! Haven’t had a choux pastry in ages.
Ursula Hunt
These really remind me of my childhood, mum made great ones
Camilla
Childhood food memories are the best aren’t they:)
DANIELLE VEDMORE
I am so making these – just need the cream and strawberries!
Camilla
Ooh, do let me know how you get on – a lot of elbow grease needed:-)
Carolyn Clapham
Mmmm, those sound lovely. Choux, cream and strawberries – three of my favourite things all together 🙂
Galina V
Very pretty! I haven’t had any choux buns for ages
Camilla
Thank you:-)
Holly Chandler
Mmm these look absolutely gorgeous!!
Ciara (@My Fussy Eater)
Oh wow these look incredible. Will have to try!
Camilla
Oh do let me know how you get on – they are amazing:-)
Ursula Hunt
everybody likes a little naughty but nice and these certainly look to fit the bill
Camilla
They are to die for:-)
Carolyn Clapham
Mmmm – yet another must-try recipe.
It will be a while before there are any fresh strawberries ready in my garden, but in the meantime I will try this with some of the frozen ones still in the freezer! Can’t wait.
Camilla
They were to die for:-)
Paul Wilson
They look amazing.
Ursula Hunt
These look absolutely gorgeous, I could just eat one now with a cup of tea 🙂
Camilla
Thanks, they are out of this world:-)
Paul Wilson
They look soooooo good.
K Mayers
I love choux buns, always have. I’ve never tried strawberry ones though! The idea certainly appeals to me though they somehow look rather gooey lol, I’ll try them all the same though simply as I’ll never know otherwise will i?
Have you ever tried other fruits? I just wondered if any others were possible..
Camilla
I’ve never tried other fruit, I suppose you could try raspberries but you might need to sweeten them as they can be a bit tart sometimes.
Helen Allan
I’m very excited to discover this recipe. I love choux pastry but the chocolate covered versions have never really appealed. These however look delicious! 🙂
Camilla
Thanks, they are sublime:-)
Maya Russell
And they do look lovely – make me feel summery (if that’s possible!)
Camilla
Thanks:-)
Judith Luscombe
Wow they look scrumptious.
Maya Russell
I really want to try to make choux pastry. Thanks for the full instructions. Lovely recipe.
Lisa Williams
AMAZING! I love choux buns but I have never been able to make it and had never thought of adding a strawberry twist to them 🙂
Belinda Matthews
could these be made with gluten free flour they look so good
Camilla
I’ve not tried myself but see from Doves Farm website that it is possible to make choux pastry with gluten free flour.
Helen Gardner
Oh now they do look very summery….will have to give them a try (when I have some spare strawberries)
HelenSw4les
These look delicious; I usually scrape off the chocolate on the choux buns as I don’t like it but never thought of making strawberry ones, delicious
Hayley
I’ve never made choux pastry it’s always seemed a bit scary for me! Maybe I’ll give it a go!
Camilla
I hope you do, it’s just a case of a lot of elbow grease:-)
Laura loves cakes
These sound absolutely lovely…I love the idea of strawberry icing and strawberry inside…I can imagine it goes perfectly withe the choux and cream. I braved choux this week and made two recipes…it’s actually not as difficult as I thought it would be! 🙂
Camilla
Hi Laura
I’m ashamed to say that the last time I made choux pastry was at school! As you say, they aren’t difficult, just need a lot of elbow grease. As my husband was around I used some of his whilst I took the pictures! I look forward to seeing your creations, thanks for stopping by!
Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand
I really like choux pastry but can’t really take cream ….but like strawberries. What’s a girl to do? Decisions decisions…..If I was to substitute the cream for custard…do you think that would work Camilla?
Looks like you had a sunny day when you made these 🙂
Camilla
Hmm, does that mean you don’t do ice cream either. I think the nearest alternative would be to fill will a very good quality strawberry ice cream (but they often contain cream). I wonder if strawberry creme patisserie exists – maybe you could be the first to invent it Jacqueline? Plain custard just wouldn’t do these justice, I would then just put chocolate on top. Tell you what I’ll cut down the cream if you cut down the blue cheese blogs!
Katie
My word these look totally DIVINE! I’m on a health kick at the moment so am desperately trying to avoid stuff like this, but i’m going to bookmark this for the next time I need to impress some afternoon tea guests…
Choux pastry is properly tricky so blimmin’ good effort! Thanks for linking up 🙂
Camilla
Thank you so much for your kind words. I do hope you try them out before the strawberry season is out! Everything in moderation I say. There’s no such thing as bad food, just a bad diet! But it’s difficult running a blog to sometimes not cross this line in the line of duty:-)
Mich Puece of Cake
Yummy! I was just thinking of what filling I should do for choux
Pastries this weekend and strawberries sound perfect!
Camilla
I hope you enjoy them as much as we did:-)
Jen
They sound delicious and look divine. Thanks for entering Classic French 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Jen. Here’s to a successful challenge!