Croquembouche recipe
Recipe courtesy of Patisse
Def: A croquembouche is a French cake, a kind of pièce montée often served at weddings, baptisms, and first communions. It is a high cone of profiteroles (choux filled with pastry cream) sometimes dipped in chocolate bound with caramel, and usually decorated with threads of caramel, sugared almonds, chocolate, flowers, or ribbons.
Choux Pastry
INGREDIENTS
200g butter
250g water
250g milk
10g caster sugar
6g/4 pinches of salt
300g plain flour
10 eggs
METHOD
Place the butter, milk, water, sugar & salt into a saucepan to boil
Add flour and then DESSECHER the mix with a wooden spoon for 5 minutes
Remove from heat
Place mix into a mixing bowl
While beating the mix with paddle, gradually add the eggs
Store overnight in the refrigerator
Pipe mixture into small balls on a baking tray lined with silicon/baking paper about an inch apart from each other.
Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 190C/380F. Then reduce temperature to 160C/320F and bake for another 10 minutes to dry out.
Creme Patissierre
INGREDIENTS
1000g milk
8 Egg yolks
120g caster sugar
50g plain flour
50g corn flour
1 vanilla bean
METHOD
Boil the milk and add vanilla essence
In a mixing bowl whisk the eggs and sugar
When egg mix is light and fluffy add the two flours
Mix until well combined (no lumps)
Sift the milk and then return to the saucepan
Put 1/3 of the milk mix into the egg mix and combine
Then put everything back onto the stove with the milk mix
When it starts to boil cook for 5 minutes
ASSEMBLY
Once cooled from the oven you need to puncture the choux ball to make a
hole. Insert piping bag and add the crème filling.
Caramel Topping
To coat approx 10 to 15 choux
300g Castor Sugar
80g Glucose
60g Water
Method
Cook to 170c for coating
Assembly
Dip the choux balls into the caramel as assembled with either cone mould or as arrange as desired.
NQN and Mr NQN attended the Pastisse French Croquembouche class as guests of Patisse
Patisse
Shop G01, PYD Building
197 Young Street, Waterloo, NSW
Tel: +61 (02) 9690 0665
http://patisse.com.au/
Information on the cooking classes can be found here: http://patisse.com.au/page/cooking_classes.html