Desserts
Croquembouche
A pyramid of cream puffs filled with pastry cream and joined with caramel: the French wedding and communion centerpiece.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Pastry cream
Caramel
Spices & seasoning
Optional extras
Nutrition facts
569 kcal per serving
- Protein
- 13.1 g
- Carbohydrates
- 78.4 g
- of which sugars
- 55.7 g
- Fat
- 22.2 g
- Fiber
- 0.9 g
Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.
Instructions
- Make the choux pastry, pipe 60 to 70 small puffs and bake for 25 minutes at 355°F (180°C); let cool.
- Make the vanilla pastry cream and let it cool with plastic wrap pressed onto the surface.
- Fill each puff with cream using a piping bag, from the bottom.
- Make a light golden caramel; dip each puff and stack them in smaller and smaller circles around a cone (or freehand).
- Decorate with caramel threads and sugared almonds; serve within a few hours.
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Original Ecomely recipe.