[1]Croquembouche [2]: The dessert that “combines elegant traditionalism with an imaginative modern approach to the elaborate form of styling.”*
It’s not quite fair to say that Croquembouche [2] is simple, but the effort-to-reward ratio is off the charts, thus making the endeavor well worth the undertaking.
[3]Croquembouche’s translation, basically “crunch in the mouth,” is spot on. The tower of lemony cream puffs is bound by crackly caramel. It’s dessert as finger food: pluck the pastries one by one until the tower is toppled.
Croquembouche [2]‘s non-negotiables are the small cream puffs, the tall profile and the crackly caramel. Liberties can be taken with the filling, most often with a starting point of a pastry cream or custard base. SpecD is an adherent of the cream filling school, with our proprietary Juila Child-blessed innovation: lacing the cream with shards of hard candy for a crunch infusion.
As mentioned earlier (and often), over the course of a memorable tête-à-tête with Julia Child [4] I shared my mom’s idea of adding pulverized peppermint candies to the filling of a Christmas croquembouche. “Oh, that sounds lovely!” she declared in full throttle Julia Child alto-vibrato-profundo lilt.
[5]For this Easter doozy pulverized sour lemon drop crumbs laced the filling with a light citrusy pucker. And the little yellow flowers are simple enough: pinch out petals from a ball of colored fondant or marizpan and embellish in an attractive manner.
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Pastry bag and decorating set [10] to fill the cream puffs (one could use the plastic-baggie-with-a-corner-snipped-off technique)
Copper caramel pan [11] (copper is the best heat conduit but any decent small sauce pot will serve)
Sculpting tools for marzipan and icing decorations [12] (a grooved press makes the icing flower petals dressier)
Croquembouche mold [13] (mother had a St. Louis craftsman make this beauty for me; this links to a metal form on Amazon; alternately the cream puff pile could be free-form, albeit with less sky-high results)
[14]Click here for the recipe and instructions for Croquembouche [2] with sour lemon cream.
*This quote is from Blow Dry starring a mincing, bleach blonde Hugh Bonneville, Heidi Klum, Josh Hartnett and Natasha Richardson. It refers to the “Hair by Night” portion of the British National Hair Dressing Competition.