Assembling a Croquembouche

Epicurious Editor-in-Chief Tanya Wenman Steel demonstrates how to make this classic French Christmas dessert, a tall pyramid of pastry cream-filled puffs.

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Howto & Style

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• food
• kitchen
• cooking
• christmas
• kids
• croquembouche
• holiday
• entertaining

[sww1979]

more like crap-embouche

[palebluedot]

...

did she learn how to assemble a croquembouche from sandra lee or something?

good god.

editor in chief of epicurious my ass.

[mlp2070]

this is definitely NOT THE RIGHT WAY!

[ThePinkHeel]

Hem... people... there is NO need for toothpicks! I do it with no cone or toothpicks and it holds. Just use a cone if you're going to carry it.

Hahaha! Toothpicks in a Croque en bouche!

[yamhera]

Whoa.. not good!

[Razlazl666]

what a joke...



[MsCakerat]

I would probably put the puffs on first then drizzle chocolate or paint chocolate on, so it wouldn't be as messy. This video gave me a good idea as to how it can be assembled though. Good starting point.

[travisbavisss]

This is a joke right? Why were the ones she just put on were way messier than the ones that were already on there? haha

[katrulez1000]

It looks horrible!

[SuperBecful]

errrrrt!



[EmilyStory]

why bother with the toothpicks? why not just make the caramelized sugar and use that as some kind of glue.. either that or chocolate. I would never serve a croquembouche with toothpicks sticking out of it.

two words, law suit.

[danasy87]

... right now I am imagining how the heck it will look like if the cake is eaten? Toothpicks all over the place ... I want to make a croque en bouche in the near future and learned through this vid how not to make it. You can see every trace of her fingers on that cake. Looks like Hedgehog-cake. The difference between the prepared bottom of the cake and her attempts is nice though.

And I will definetely wear all my tassels while cooking and baking...