Croquembouche

[jm chen]

The wedding planning has begun. Ah, delightful stress. Since it's still early, we're mostly throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Today's idea: croquembouche.

It's the French traditional wedding cake -- not cake at all, but a heap of profiteroles (tiny cream puffs) filled with custard or cream, piled up in a pyramid and decorated with spun sugar. Mostly they look like this.

Has anyone seen one of these locally? Any ideas for potential providers? I'm not sure it's a good idea yet, but it's unusual, and bound to be tasty. I would do it myself if I weren't going to be busy, y'know, bride-ing.

[cjsadler]

Try giving Kirsten's Cafe a call-- I heard they'll do stuff like this.

[cheezepowder]

In case you haven't already seen it, there was a thread on egullet though it's now a couple of years old.

[jparrott]

We had a croquembouche from Patisserie Poupon and it was stellar. They can offer a choice of flavorings of the pastry cream and (subtle) colors for the binding syrup.

[jm chen]

Damn, you people are good.

[zoramargolis]

One of my favorite Julia Child viewings was when Martha Stewart had Julia as a guest on her ((Martha's) show, and they made croquembouches side by side.

Martha's was tight, perfectly neat and orderly, and Julia's was chaotic and stacked sort of willy-nilly. But good ol' Julia was high-spirited (probably literally as well as figuratively) and having a great time, while Martha was smug, as usual.