Hard
French
Croquembouche
Tower of cream puffs with caramel
160
Total Minutes
12
Servings
Vegetarian
Cooking Times
120 min
Prep Time
40 min
Cook Time
160 min
Total Time
Ingredients (8 items)
2.00 batches
Choux pastry
for profiteroles
3.00 cups
Pastry cream
vanilla
2.00 cups
Sugar
for caramel
0.50 cup
Water
2.00 tbsp
Corn syrup
2.00 cups
Heavy cream
2.00 tsp
Vanilla extract
8.00 large
Eggs
for choux
Instructions (6 steps)
1
Make choux pastry, pipe and bake profiteroles.
25 minutes
2
Cool completely, fill with pastry cream.
3
Make caramel with sugar, water, corn syrup.
15 minutes
4
Dip each profiterole in caramel.
5
Build tower, starting with largest base.
6
Drizzle with remaining caramel threads.