T-Level CateringYears 12–13Catering

Pastry — short, choux, puff, filo

T-Level: Catering: Pastry — short, choux, puff, filo

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you're in a kitchen holding a block of butter. 🧈 Choux pastry is made by boiling water and butter together, then beating in flour and eggs — it puffs up in the oven!

  2. 2

    What makes choux pastry rise? 🥟

  3. 3

    Here's how choux pastry looks before and after baking. Before: a thick, sticky dough. After: a golden, hollow shell perfect for filling with cream. 🥐

  4. 4

    Let's make choux pastry step by step. 📝

  5. 5

    Now you try: tap the right ingredients to make choux pastry. 🥄

  6. 6

    Which pastry is layered with butter and folded many times to make it flaky? 🥐

  7. 7

    Which pastry is paper-thin and used in layers for baklava? 🥟

Practise Pastry — short, choux, puff, filo with Whizlo

Free AI-tutored lessons, unlimited practice questions, and progress tracking for ages 16–18. Aligned to the UK National Curriculum.