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Croquembouche

Croquembouche

Ingredients

  • some cream puffs (depends on how high you want)
  • 2 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup water
  • 2 tbsp corn syrup

Instructions

  • bring sugar water and corn syrup to a boil over high heat about 1.5 min Do not stir
  • Cover pan until steam dissolves any crystals 2-3 min
  • uncover and boil until syrup is amber, should reach hard crack stage
  • remove from heat and dip bottoms of the puffs, one by one and arrange into a pyramid
  • dip balloon whisk with ends cut of into syrup and whirl strand of syrup around the Croquembouche
  • this will form a spun-sugar web

Notes

depending on the size you may meed to make more syrup to stick the puffs and spun sugarĀ