This Beignets with choux pastry dough recipe came to me on an old, tattered recipe card. I knew right away it was a keeper.

Choux pastry is a pillar of the pastry world ... or pipe out crullers to deep-fry. The dough is always cooked at a high temperature (around 400°F- 425°F) to ensure the most dramatic evaporation ...

Fry cruller until slightly puffed and cooked ... which is slightly different — these doughnuts are made with choux pastry rather than a cake doughnut dough. The choux is extruded into a ring ...