One of the products that best represents the prestigious French pastry is the ‘Choux’, Some light dough buns that are inflated in the oven and that can then be filled with cream or other ingredients, usually sweet. In the country … neighbor are a regular product in houses and coffee shops, and it was perhaps for that, for what it represents in the domestic and everyday of its land and the possibilities that a more gourmet look can contribute on it, than Annabelle Culty He wanted to be his ambassador in Madrid after leaving everything to devote himself to his “lifelong passion”, the confectionery.
It is the one that dumps every day in its small chamberí store and in its position in the Antón Martín market, in Madrid, where it is raising with a lot of effort, conviction and mouth of its customers, among which is much of the French community resident in the city, its business, Santana Chouxspecialized in the artisanal elaboration of these cupcakes.
The 32 -year -old girl, who was born and grew up in Vaison La Romaine, a small town near Aviñón, studied business administration, worked in various trades and then in marketing and communication and lived a time outside, but back to France he decided enroll in pastry in the prestigious Ferrandi school in Paris.
Madrid arrived from his career, which allowed him to work for a time in a company and save a little to launch for your dream. “I love the pastry shop, although I have barely trained, I did intensive courses to understand the difference between what I was doing in my house for ten years and how it is done professionally,” he confesses to ABC while filling chouxs in his newest premises, the market.
The second great decision was Specialize only in a productsomething that many against her still today but that she considers a real challenge. «I chose to dedicate myself to a single thing until I had it dominated. I did a lot of tests, and I still do them with each variety. I could elaborate anything in pastry, but at the professional level I preferred to concentrate on something, ”he confesses.
The only exception is at Christmas holidays, when you prepare Your Galette In the classical way, with French butter, of tremendously laborious, long and artisanal preparation. They fly, they ask for more, but she resists and continues to work on new flavors for her Choux.
How are your chouquettes or chouxs
His dear inflated cakes do them every morning, only sells those of the day, Using quality raw materials, by hand and without preservatives or dyes. The dough is made only from eggs, flour, butter, milk and salt. Culty stuffed them based on their own recipes and some proportions that it was developing With successive tests and weights of the ingredients to balance both flavors and textures, Always looking for the perfect sweet bite.
Currently in Santana, surname of her grandmother who also encloses the diminutive with which she calls her in Madrid, the shelter offers a letter With nine flavorsranging from the fruit trees – sparkles, lemon, mango – to supervants such as pistachio, caramel, chocolate or coffee. It also prepares ‘classic chouquettes’ without filling and also salty, with emmental cheese.
Sells them individually (1.80 euros the fillings; 0.60 those who do not carry it) or In boxes of four, eight or twelve combinable units (from 6,80). On request also prepares other quantities, also towers or cakes based on the same mass, which can be personalize. Or adapt your choux to customers looking for options without gluten or sugar. They are the advantages, against both against, of being a small entrepreneur.
Santana Choux, French pastry
C/de Viriato 37 and Antón Martín market (Plant 1), Madrid.
Santana-choux.com
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