Bouchée Shells

Bouchée Shells are very small pastry or cake shells used to hold a filling.

Bouchées Salées

Bouchées Salées are very small, round puff-pastry shells, which Larousse defines as "small, individual vol-au-vent" shells. They can have a lid or no lid.

They are served hot with a dollop of a savoury mixture in them. Sometimes the mixture is in a sauce.

Bouchées were reputedly created for and made fashionable by Marie Leczinska, aka the Queen of France -- wife of Louis XV. There are many different kinds of bouchée dishes, but it's the combination that was named for her was that found in Bouchées à la Reine.

Bouchées Sucrées

Bouchées Sucrées are made from small, hollowed-out sponge cakes. They are filled with pastry cream or jam, then two of them are put together in a sandwich-like fashion, then iced.

The pastry cream may be flavoured; the icing may be both flavoured and coloured.

Language Notes about Bouchée Shells

"Bouchée" means "mouthful."

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