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a tower of cream puffs glued with caramel, daring you to demolish it elegantly.
means A French dessert of cream-filled choux pastry puffs stacked into a cone and bound together with threads of caramel, traditionally served at weddings and celebrations.
from Straight from the French, and gloriously literal: croque en bouche means "crunch in the mouth" — croquer, to crunch or bite, plus en bouche, in the mouth. The name is a warning and an invitation at once, naming the caramel shell's brittle snap as you bite. The dessert and its tower-of-puffs form took shape in French pâtisserie, with celebrated early pastry chefs of the 19th century helping cement it as the showpiece centerpiece it remains.
- name means
- French for crunch in the mouth
- wedding cake
- traditional French wedding and baptism centerpiece
- caramel armor
- spun sugar threads can wrap the whole tower
- chef cred
- Carême, founder of haute cuisine, popularized it
- demolition required
- eaten by pulling puffs off, no clean slices
paris-brest wedding cakes — french pastry shops create croquembouche towers for 95% of traditional weddings in france