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A hollow dough orb that exists purely to deliver its filling like a sugary ambush.
steam trickEggs and water steam-blast the dough hollow
french nameCalled profiterole or chou, meaning cabbage
tower formStacked into croquembouche, a glued dessert mountain
slang insultMeans a soft, weak person since 1800s
royal rootsA queen's chef perfected it in 1500s France