Croquembouche wedding cake recipe

September 23, 6:20 PMDenver Cooking ExaminerRachel Ruff

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A croquembouche is a traditional French wedding cake. I recently posted the recipe for making pate a choux and this cake is exactly what Julia Child made but in the form of a tiered pile of puffs rather than eclairs. Instead of piping horizontal lines you pipe them in the form of balls.

Croquembouche translated means “crunch in one’s mouth” because that is exactly what it does and once one crunches into these blissful balls of pastry the taster finds creamy custard inside.

My in-laws were celebrating a “double” 50th wedding anniversary. My mother-in-law shares her anniversary with her sister and her husband. And they were doubly delighted to discover one of their favorite desserts I make can be made in the form of a wedding cake.

A croquembouche also makes a wonderful party presentation for Christmastime. I stacked mine together with chocolate ganache as glue. But you can also use spun sugar that you fling on with a whisk to look like a shiny cobweb of sugar spilling down the tier.

Whichever method you choose, your guests will be popping these puffs into their mouths so quickly the tier will be torn down in seconds.