I met up with a couple of my girlfriends, C.Lee and K.Wong, for a baking day. After brainstorming potential recipes, we decided to try out the Martha Stewart Croquembouche. I've seen croquembouches in pictures and on television - but i've never attempted one myself. If you've never seen one before, click on the link - it's basically a giant Christmas tree tower of cream puffs. We started off making the caramel cream (to be filled inside the puffs). After one failed attempt, the second time we managed to get a tasty caramel mixture. We then made the puffs and piped them onto a parchment-lined pan and popped them in the oven. After waiting 25 minutes, there was no "puff" to the puffs. We figured that maybe they would puff up after we filled with the cream. We took some whipping cream and whipped it until stiff peaks formed. We then took the caramel cream from earlier and folded it into the whipped cream. Unfortunately, the mixture kind of fell apart and became liquidy - not quite fluffy. After experimenting and trying to make the cream more stiff, we decided to try filling the puffs. This picture was the result. The puffs did not puff up enough so it was very difficult to fill. We even started making cream puff sandwiches (like oreos!). Needless to say, we didn't manage to assemble our tree. This recipe was quite hard, even though it felt like we followed the recipe.
Although the cream puffs didn't really work out, the puff and the cream both tasted good. If you ever try out this recipe, and it doesn't turn out...try freezing them...that's what we did!
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