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  croquembouche wedding cakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Literally meaning “crack in one’s mouth” a croquembouche is a traditional French wedding cake consisting of puffs of choux pastry filled with a vanilla creme patissiere, held together with a delicious cobweb of caramel.
This croquembouche can be displayed with a generous drizzle of dark chocolate and perhaps strawberries around the base, or chocolate glaze can be supplied ready for pouring instead of the traditional cutting of the cake.
Traditionally, the croquembouche is served by hitting it hard with a sword, with the bridesmaids catching the pieces in a tablecloth.
www.wedding-cakes.co.uk /html/croquembouche_wedding_cakes.shtml   (609 words)

  
 Recipe: A Traditional French Croquembouche for Jessica
Croquembouche comes from the French “croquant” meaning crackling and “bouche” for mouth.
Thus croquembouche refers to the crackling in your mouth when eating this traditional dessert.
The croquembouche is often the dessert at a French wedding.
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 Stuff Happiness Is Made Of: Croquembouche
I have always wanted to make a croquembouche, but never had the courage to do it alone.
Anyway, my pastry chef friend decided to come and teach me the fine arts of making a croquembouche and my friend came along as well as part of the training team.
There's a base that we build the croquembouche around and once the chocolate sets, we take the base off - leaving it hollow.
kitchenfairy.blogspot.com /2006/08/croquembouche.html   (391 words)

  
 The Patisserie, Cobham Surrey, Croquembouche Wedding Cakes
Croquembouche is a traditional French wedding cake, which usually consists of choux pastry puffs filled with vanilla pastry cream, and coated in a thin crisp crust of hard crack sugar.
Croquembouche make a beautiful and unusual centre piece and are available in many variations to suit your tastes.
For example, a chocolate covered Croquembouche or alternative fillings for the choux puffs are available eg.
www.thepatisserie.co.uk /croquembouche_wedding.htm   (193 words)

  
 cuisine/learn DE CUISINE: RECIPE: CROQUEMBOUCHE
The croquembouche is often the dessert at a French wedding or christening.
Profiteroles are filled with pastry cream (creme patissiere) and held together with a delicate cobweb of caramel to form a breathtaking centerpiece.
Although traditionally decorated with sugared almonds, the croquembouche also looks stunning with tiny fresh flowers, a drizzle of dark chocolate, or a web of spun sugar.
www.chefdecuisine.com /cuisine/learn/choux/CROQUEMBOUCHE.asp   (619 words)

  
 Croquembouche
The croquembouche, whose name means "crunch in the mouth" is a rather simple version of his creations, and its popularity has spread from France to other countries as a different sort of celebration or wedding cake.
In 1760 a French pastry chef named Avice filled the buns with pastry cream and called them profiteroles, and these were the type of cream puffs that Careme used and perfected for his desserts later in that century.
The croquembouche has several steps and requires making first a pate a choux, then a pastry cream, then a caramel sauce before you can construct it and possibly add your own decorations.
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 Better Homes and Gardens Australia - Australia's Number 1 Home Life magazine and TV Show, Better Homes and Gardens. ...
I am going to make the croquembouche for a large number of people - about 90, and would love any help and tips please.
Literally "crunch in the mouth", croquembouche is a traditional French dessert made of profiteroles filled with cream or creme patisserie, stacked into a cone shape and decorated with spun sugar.
When professionally made, the cone is formed around a stainless steel mould and the profiteroles are attached to each other with caramel.
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 eG Forums -> Croquembouche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
If you saw the Martha/Julia croquembouche tv special a few years back--the profiteroles should be smaller to be more elegant--and to be truer to the form.
It could be fun doing your croquembouche by hand without buying a stainless steel cone--for one thing it teaches you hand/eye coordination and sensitivity for your ingredients, how food is alive and creation is fragile and sensitive to your environment.
Good luck with the croquembouche by the way, I have always managed to dissuade myself from the urge to combine substantial quantities of choux pastry with large amounts of caramel.
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 History of Wedding Cake -- Wheat Cakes, Frosted Wedding Cake and Croquembouche
This is believed to be the first account of a tiered, frosted wedding cake, after which the modern wedding cake is patterned.
This version of the confection has survived in its own rite, however, and even today the croquembouche - a tall pyramid of profiteroles, or cream puffs - can be found at many French weddings.
Until refined flour and processed sugar became available in the eighteenth century, wedding cakes were typically dense fruitcakes baked well in advance and soaked in spirits to preserve them.
www.edencakes.com /history-of-wedding-cake   (560 words)

  
 Cream Puffs: Croquembouche
When ready to assemble croquembouche (cream puffs have only their tops dipped at this point) dip one side of each creampuff and place around base of the foil cone (you can usually get six puffs around the base - this is your first row).
Once the pyramid structure is complete, dip a whisk or fork in the remaining caramel.
In a circular motion, trail threads of caramel over the top and down the sides of the croquembouche.
www.cyber-kitchen.com /ubbs/archive/PASTRIES/Croquembouche.html   (953 words)

  
 Treat guests to crispy cream-puff tower
6) To assemble the croquembouche: Oil a 10-inch plate, serving platter or metal base of a removable tart pan.
Continue to attach smaller and smaller rings of puffs until the mound forms a cone shape.
Christopher Green's recipe for croquembouche with its festive decorations, is sure to turn your heads at your holiday gathering.
www.azcentral.com /home/food/articles/1201askthechef01.html   (699 words)

  
 Croquembouche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Just before assembling croquembouche, fill a pastry tube fitted with a 1/4-inch-wide tip with pastry cream, insert tip into puffs, and pipe in cream to fill.
   To make a spun-sugar web to wrap around the croquembouche: Cut the looped ends of a wire whisk with wire cutters, or use two forks held side by side, and dip the ends into caramel.
Wave the caramel back and forth over the croquembouche, allowing the strands to fall in long, thin threads around it.
www.marthastewart.com /page.jhtml?type=content&id=recipe2221&search=true&resultNo=1   (444 words)

  
 Recipes at Cooking.com
Let stand until caramel begins to form a thread when whisk is dipped into sugar and lifted into air, about 5 minutes.
Wave whisk with sugar thread over and around croquembouche forming decorative threads.
Repeat forming threads around Croquembouche by dipping whisk into caramel.
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 Recipe: Croquembouche by Martha Stewart - Another recipe for Jessica.
The name of this classic French dessert means "crunch in the mouth." Make the caramel and assemble the dessert as close to serving time as possible.
To make the caramel: In a medium saucepan, combine 2/3 cup water, sugar, and corn syrup, and bring to a boil over high heat.
To make a spun-sugar web to wrap around the croquembouche: Cut the looped ends of a wire whisk with wire cutters, or use two forks held side by side, and dip the ends into caramel.
www.recipelink.com /gm/2/14782   (468 words)

  
 An Obsession with Food
Croquembouche is a bit of an obsession with me. It's not that I make it all the time, but every time I make it, something seems to go wrong.
Then once I figured out how to get the caramel to work, I assembled a croquembouche for a potluck at work and left it out overnight.
In what I'm guessing was a warm kitchen, because by the next morning, the caramel had reliquefied and I had a nice pile of slightly sticky but also somewhat moist cream puffs.
home.mindspring.com /~bookwyrm/food/2003_02_01_blog-archive.html   (7070 words)

  
 Croquembouche from Delia Online
So light it almost floats, choux pastry is one of the simplest things to make – and one of the most versatile.
Dip the buns in the caramel (take care with the caramel as it will be extremely hot) and arrange them on a cake stand or plate in a pyramid shape.
If the caramel starts to set before the croquembouche is assembled, place it back over a gentle heat.
www.deliaonline.com /recipes/croquembouche,1079,RC.html   (598 words)

  
 Croquembouche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
To assemble Croquembouche: Dip the filled cream puffs, one by one, into the caramel syrup and arrange on a base of pralines.
Crumble some of the pralines and sprinkle into the pyramid as it is being assembled.
Assemble the Croquembouche the day it is to be served, as it cannot be refrigerated.
www.cajun-recipes.com /html/dessert/2136.htm   (351 words)

  
 Croquembouch suppliers in the UK by Robineau
With our expertise in patisserie we are able to offer a celebration cake with a difference: the croquembouche.
This gateau is decorated with hand made sugar flowers, and an inscription of your choice.
Other croquembouche designs are available through our bespoke design service.
www.robineau.co.uk /croquembouche.htm   (56 words)

  
 Croquembouche
When the cone is covered, drizzle caramel over the croquembouche, letting it run down the cream puffs.
For added elegance, enrobe the croquembouche in spun sugar.
Let the caramel cool to honey consistency, then dip a fork or a sawed-off whisk into the caramel and twirl it around the croquembouche.
www.azcentral.com /home/recipes/articles/0123foodbaby23rec3.html   (400 words)

  
 Culi d'Or - DeBoer Food Importers. Largest Holland Importer.
At this point you may store the croquembouche in the freezer until needed if the puffs have not thawed.
To prepare for use/sale, sprinkle with powdered sugar, then transfer the cone to serving tray, using the skewers and spatula
Decorate the croquembouche with seasonal greens, festive ribbons and ornaments.
www.deboerfood.com /culidor_ideabook.html   (197 words)

  
 Debra Lynn Dadd : : Recipe ~ Croquembouche (French Wedding Cake)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
I first found croquembouche many years ago in the Findhorn Family Cookbook.
I was so charmed by it that I made one for my step-mother's fiftieth birthday party, because you really need a crowd for a croquembouche.
A croquembouche is a pile of small cream-filled puffs, held together by caramel.
www.dld123.com /sweetsavvy/recipes/recipe.php?id=R96   (283 words)

  
 Village Bakehouse French Wedding Cakes
Thierry’s striking traditional French wedding cakes (Piéce Montée or Croquembouche) are edible ensembles that never fail to impress.
With care and skill, small kirsch and mousse- or custard-filled choux pastry are joined one to the other by caramel to form a graceful, tapering tower.
If you’d like a croquembouche for your wedding, we will give you the real thing—an elegant creation by a French baker who has had to train hard to do it properly!
www.villagebakehouse.co.nz /WeddingCakes.htm   (211 words)

  
 Basenotes: Croquembouche by Demeter Fragrance Library
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 Croquembouche Wedding Cake by Rainbow Sugarcraft
The Croquembouche can then be further decorated with sugarcraft work, French almond, spun sugar or even a top ornament.
The Croquembouche can be eaten as dessert at your Wedding Breakfast.
We normally recommend you have at least three buns per guest in place of Wedding cake and five for a dessert.
www.rainbowsugarcraft.co.uk /croquembouchepage.htm   (145 words)

  
 Canadian Living : Truffle Croquembouche
Press rose leaves between truffles onto cone to cover spaces.
Cover and chill Croquembouche for up to 24 hours.
Cover and chill any remaining truffles to serve with Croquembouche.
www.canadianliving.com /CanadianLiving/client/en/Food/DetailRecipe.asp?idRe=3424   (280 words)

  
 Croquembouche Definition @ CDKitchen Cooking & Food Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 Building a croquembouche tower - HELP - ChefTalk Cooking Forums
Any good suggestions on planning and building a croquembouche tower.
Building the croquembouche tower is tricky, but I have been successful by purchasing a rubber warning cone, I lined it with a silpat sheet that was rolled up.
Using the small cream puffs dipped in hot carmelized sugar start building the tower on the inside of the cone.
www.cheftalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=14902   (513 words)

  
 InfoHub - What's your favourite dessert?
October 26th, 2005 10:19 PM Hi Catie and thanks for the info and photos on croquembouche, I am sure that after viewing those pictures, Denis will soon find out how the croquembouche actually tastes, I wouldn't resist, for example.
I am sure that after viewing those pictures, Denis will soon find out how the croquembouche actually tastes, I wouldn't resist, for example.
Yes, Tilly, as I have just mentioned, I have just fallen in love with Mademoiselle Croquembouche *heart*, and sincerely look forward to asking “her” out for a date somehow in the near future!
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 Pix Menu - Summer 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Croquembouche ~ A traditional French cake made from a tower of caramelized Grand Marnier cream puffs.
Often made for weddings but is perfect for any special occasion.
Petits Fours ~ Petits fours ("little ovens") are beautifully decorated desserts that can be eaten in a couple of bites.
www.pixpatisserie.com /une_soiree.html   (164 words)

  
 At Home With Patricia Wells - Glossary Index C
Croque-madame: open-face sandwich of ham and cheese with an egg grilled on top.
Croquembouche: choux pastry rounds filled with cream and coated with a sugar glaze, often served in a conical tower at special events.
Croquette: ground meat, fish, fowl, or vegetables bound with eggs or sauce, shaped into various forms, usually coated in bread crumbs, and deep fried.
www.patriciawells.com /glossary/atoz/c.htm   (2582 words)

  
 Jean-Marc Chatellier's French Bakery | Croquembouche
All the guests loved the change and enjoyed the ‘croquembouche experience.’” Denise and Toby
While we were there we saw a croquembouche in the window of a patisserie.
It brought back wonderful memories but wasn’t as lovely as the one you made for us.” Kathleen and Bryan
www.jeanmarcchatellier.com /croquembouche.html   (158 words)

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