Posted on 12/19/2021 1:12:21 PM PST by mylife
We are celebrating the season with two special holiday episodes of Pastries with Paola before season two launches in the spring. First up is Paola's holiday showstopper, the Old Fashioned Doughnut Croquembouche. Here, Paola riffs on the croquembouche, a classic French celebration dessert, by swapping out traditional choux pastry for crispy and fluffy old fashioned doughnuts flavored with toasty browned butter and warming cinnamon. This tower of doughnuts is held together with amber caramel and adorned with spun sugar and gold leaf– the perfect finishes for this wow-worthy dessert.
Made popular in France in Paris in the late 18th century, and in America in the 1980s, the croquembouche is a testament to the culture of excess and the embrace of the over-the-top. "The croquembouche is the it girl for the holiday season," says Paola. "And you can make them with just about anything you like."
Paola's croquembouche tastes just as good as it looks. By adding Greek yogurt to the doughnut dough, she builds in extra structural support along with a light and tangy flavor that balances out the sweetness of the caramel. Crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, these cinnamon and brown butter-scented doughnuts will make any cozy holiday celebration a little extra.
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Death by the Tower of Doughnut Holes.
Release the Croquembouche!!!
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Isn’t that a medieval catapult?
I’ll volunteer to try it!
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…..
Better keep Chris Christie away from it.
My sis had these at her wedding.
T’was dee-lish.
You know he’d be drooling.
And here all this time I figured the croak-em-bush
was a secret Pelosi strategy involving age and bad hygiene.
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!
fancy cream puffs
Not very appetizing
Now that’s just mean, LOL!
On da cookie table?
Looks like spider poop.
Don Koharski approves
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!
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