croquembouche
Sign in to saveA croquembouche () or croque-en-bouche is a French dessert consisting of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. In Italy and France, it is often served at weddings, baptisms and First Communions.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Croquembouche
- Food.image
- Croquembouche wedding cake.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Croquembouche wedding cake
- Food.alternate_name
- Croque-en-bouche, pièce-en-Montée
- Food.country
- France
- Food.course
- Dessert
- Food.type
- Choux pastry
- Food.main_ingredient
- Profiteroles, caramel
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- dish
- Country of origin
- France
- Material used
- caramel
- Image
- Ceremonial cake whacker (6744018029).jpg
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- Commons category
- Croquembouche
- cuisine
- French cuisine
- course
- dessert
- native label
- croquembouche
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A croquembouche () or croque-en-bouche is a French dessert consisting of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. In Italy and France, it is often served at weddings, baptisms and First Communions.
==Etymology== The name comes from the French phrase croque en bouche, meaning '[something that] crunches in the mouth'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “croquembouche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.