Croquembouche Recipe

  French Confections

Ingredients:
Choux Paste pronounced shoe the same stuff you make eclairs out of.
Pudding or pastry cream
chocolate
boiled sugar caramel
red and green cherries
12 inch styrafoam cone
toothpicks

Directions:
Make choux paste, drop onto cookie sheet by teaspoons or pipe out of a pastry bag to small circles about the size of a quarter and about 3/4 inches high. Bake as directed. Fill puffs with pudding. Attach to cone with toothpicks. Then fill in the holes with a second layer of puffs. Drizzle the whole thing with melted chocolate. Drizzle the whole thing with caramel. Decorate with cherries. The green cherries I smashed and cut out to look like holly leaves. Enjoy!

Croquembouche
 

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