...and now the bride will cut the Croquembouche

Croquembouche is the French traditional wedding cake. It is a high cone made of pate a choux cream puffs stuck together with caramel. The name croque en bouche literally means "crunch in mouth". It is eaten by cracking off pieces of cream puff one at a time. How fun! This pastry may look easy to make and harmless but put a bunch of novice pastry students in a room with hot boiling sugar and it spells disaster! This was my first time making caramel and it burnt before I could even say "Holy Croquembouche!" All of us burnt our finger tips dipping these little cream puffs. We had to work super fast because the sugar kept hardening in the pot. Poor Sara got a spoon that was coated with the searing hot caramel stuck on her arm. She reacted before she could think and yanked the spoon off skin and all! Not so festive when you think about the blood and tears that goes into one of these croquembouche!