A chouquette is a viennoiserie

Viennoiserie

Viennoiseries are baked goods made from a yeast-leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients giving them a richer, sweeter character, approaching that of pastry. The dough is often laminated...

 consisting of a small portion of choux pastry

Choux pastry

Choux pastry, or pâte à choux , is a light pastry dough used to make profiteroles, croquembouches, éclairs, French crullers, beignets, St. Honoré cake, Indonesian kue sus, and gougères. It contains only butter, water, flour, and eggs...

 sprinkled with pearl sugar

Nib sugar

Nib sugar is a product of refined white sugar. The sugar is very coarse, hard, opaque white, and does not melt at temperatures typically used for baking. The product usually is made by crushing blocks of white sugar, then sifting to obtain fragments of a given diameter...

. It is sometimes filled with custard or mousse. Sometimes a chouquette can be dipped in chocolate

Chocolate

Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...

 or covered in chocolate chips. Chouquettes are made with a semi difficult recipe because in order to get it right you have to boil water and mix ingredients in once boiled and has to be stirred a certain way. (http://www.cuisine-french.com/cgi/mdc/l/en/recettes/chouquettes_ill.html) Chouquettes do not come from any particular region of France because its ingredients are easy to come by. (see recipe)

etymology: "chou" cabbagge, "quette" making the word smaller, thus meaning a small cabage