Learn how to make Croquembouche, a classic French dessert made of sweet, creamy, crunchy cream puffs assembled into one show ...

Pastry chef Paola Velez's variation on a traditional croquembouche features homemade cinnamon doughnuts instead of cream puffs. The first step is to fry up a batch of the doughnut holes. They're then ...

Think the Cronut is a complex dessert? Think again! Thanks to a recent MasterChef episode where the contestants were challenged to make croquembouche, the French dessert is on everyone's minds. Since ...

Croquembouche, the French pastry popularized in the early 19th century, is suddenly back on the banquet table. Seeking to evoke “a meeting of wise characters coming from a fantasy world,” the ...

We are celebrating the season with two special holiday episodes of Pastries with Paola before season two launches in the spring. First up is Paola's holiday showstopper, the Old Fashioned Doughnut ...

One of my favorite desserts to make is this wonderful “cake” called a croquembouche. It was created by chef Antoine Carême in the 1700’s and is the traditional French wedding cake. This wonderful cake ...

While cakes are a tasty dessert, their rich, dense, and sweet consistency is not for everyone. However, in many places, like the U.S., they are the traditional go-to for special occasions like ...

When the very first season of MasterChef Australia aired in 2009 there was one challenge that captivated my putty-like brain — Adriano Zumbo‘s croquembouche. It was tall, elegant, and ultimately, ...

Making croquembouche requires several steps, after all, you are making a dessert pyramid! To make the pastry puffs, you'll need butter, salt, sugar, flour and eggs. The pastry cream requires egg yolks ...