Croquembouche
Croquembouche is a dramatic French dessert tower made from cream puffs bound with caramel, offering a crisp and creamy bite.
Instructions
- 1
Boil water and butter, add flour for choux dough, cool, then incorporate eggs gradually.
- 2
Pipe small puffs, bake at 190C, then reduce heat to dry them thoroughly.
- 3
Cook pastry cream with milk, sugar, and cornstarch, add vanilla, cool, and fill the puffs.
- 4
Make deep amber caramel and dip puff bottoms to assemble a cone-shaped tower.
- 5
Use caramel threads for finishing decoration once the tower is stable.
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