One of my favorite desserts to make is this wonderful “cake” called a croquembouche. It was created by chef Antoine Carême in the 1700’s and is the traditional French wedding cake. This wonderful cake ...

Day 76 of French pastry school involved pulling sugar and finishing the croquembouche. This pastry student makes sugar decorations for her croquembouche wedding cake.

Twenty-five years ago, or so, I found the magic. I was paging through a cookbook, the seminal “La Methode,” Jacques Pepin’s sequel to his even more seminal “La Technique.” As I was grazing through the ...

Learn how to make Croquembouche, a classic French dessert made of sweet, creamy, crunchy cream puffs assembled into one show stopping tower!

Wait, did I die and go to cake heaven? When I first laid eyes on this croquembouche concoction, I immediately wanted to scrap the sensible chocolate cake I had already ordered for my wedding. I mean, ...

We love to make a croquembouche (a very classy cone-shaped display) out of our cake truffles at Milk Bar. It is so easy to assemble and it always ups the ante of any dessert spread. Our version is ...

Croquembouche, the French pastry popularized in the early 19th century, is suddenly back on the banquet table. Seeking to evoke “a meeting of wise characters coming from a fantasy world,” the ...