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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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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foodandwine.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: caramel; doughnut; greekyougurt; yogurt
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Release the Croquembouche!!!
1 posted on 12/19/2021 1:12:21 PM PST by mylife
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Death by the Tower of Doughnut Holes.


2 posted on 12/19/2021 1:14:14 PM PST by BipolarBob (WHY are there no Democrats on Mt. Rushmore?)
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To: mylife
Looks delish


3 posted on 12/19/2021 1:15:32 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: mylife

Release the Croquembouche!!!

Isn’t that a medieval catapult?


4 posted on 12/19/2021 1:17:44 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Sparticus

I’ll volunteer to try it!


5 posted on 12/19/2021 1:17:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Sparticus

6 posted on 12/19/2021 1:19:11 PM PST by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: mylife

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…..


7 posted on 12/19/2021 1:24:44 PM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: mylife

Better keep Chris Christie away from it.


8 posted on 12/19/2021 1:25:57 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mylife

My sis had these at her wedding.

T’was dee-lish.


9 posted on 12/19/2021 1:30:52 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: KevinB

You know he’d be drooling.


10 posted on 12/19/2021 1:32:48 PM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: mylife
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.

11 posted on 12/19/2021 1:34:40 PM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: mylife

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!


12 posted on 12/19/2021 1:37:51 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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fancy cream puffs


13 posted on 12/19/2021 1:40:15 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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fancy cream puffs

No cream in the middle, and a little more dense. More like a light cake doughnut.
14 posted on 12/19/2021 1:42:21 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: humblegunner

Not very appetizing


15 posted on 12/19/2021 1:53:10 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: KevinB

Now that’s just mean, LOL!


16 posted on 12/19/2021 1:59:10 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: martin_fierro

On da cookie table?


17 posted on 12/19/2021 2:13:19 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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Looks like spider poop.


18 posted on 12/19/2021 2:16:13 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: mylife

Don Koharski approves


19 posted on 12/19/2021 2:17:19 PM PST by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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To: mylife

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!


20 posted on 12/19/2021 2:40:46 PM PST by CatHerd (And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love - William Blake)
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