This Tower of Doughnuts Is the Perfect Centerpiece for Your Holiday Table Pastry chef Paola Velez makes an Old Fashioned Doughnut Croquembouche in this holiday episode of Pastries with Paola.

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[mylife]

Release the Croquembouche!!!

[BipolarBob]

Death by the Tower of Doughnut Holes.

[Sparticus]

Looks delish

[Flick Lives]

Release the Croquembouche!!!

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Isn’t that a medieval catapult?

[MHGinTN]

I’ll volunteer to try it!

[KevinB]

[nevergore]

Our family owned a traditional bakery and every year we used to make several Croquembouche for customers on request….. Not really difficult to make but properly applying the spun sugar was painful at times…..Melted sugar burns are the worst…..

[dfwgator]

Better keep Chris Christie away from it.

[martin_fierro]

My sis had these at her wedding.

T’was dee-lish.

[Track9]

You know he’d be drooling.

[humblegunner]

Paola riffs on the croquembouche

And here all this time I figured the croak-em-bush
was a secret Pelosi strategy involving age and bad hygiene.

[Dr. Sivana]

That looks and sounds very much like the Dutch OLIE BOLLEN that my half-Dutch wife makes every New Year’s. Very tasty. Great with good coffee!

[mylife]

fancy cream puffs

[Dr. Sivana]

fancy cream puffs

No cream in the middle, and a little more dense. More like a light cake doughnut.

[mylife]

Not very appetizing

[Sparticus]

Now that’s just mean, LOL!

[mylife]

On da cookie table?

[tet68]

Looks like spider poop.

[PlateOfShrimp]

Don Koharski approves

[CatHerd]

Easy cheat: Buy those cute little round frozen cream puffs at Sam’s or Costco. You still have to construct it with the caramel and make the pretty spun sugar swirls all over.

The ones I saw as a girl years ago in the French patisseries for weddings were sprinkled with edible rose petals. Very sweet and pretty, but you would have to make sure they were pesticide free. Sometimes they were also drizzled with dark chocolate. Mmm!