Croquembouche recipe

Croquembouche is a traditional French christening and wedding cake that isn't a cake at all—it's an impressive tower of caramel-crusted cream puffs. With a bit of patience, you can make this towering dessert at home.

A towering masterpiece of caramel-covered cream puffs surrounded by golden threads of spun sugar, the croquembouche is the celebration cake of France.

Wow your holiday crowd with a traditional croquembouche from Food Network Magazine. It's the ultimate festive dessert, and it's easier than it looks!

Learn how to make a Croquembouche recipe (profiterole tower) that is certainly a showstopper, but made simple with my step-by-step guide!

The name of this classic French dessert means "crunch in the mouth"; Make the caramel and assemble the dessert as close to serving time as possible.

A showstopping croquembouche for a wedding or special occasion is not that difficult to make. Carefully follow this recipe, and you'll be rewarded with a delicious tower of cream puffs!

This oh so pretty White Chocolate Dipped Croquembouche Filled with Eggnog Pastry Cream is the show-stopping dessert you NEED to have this holiday season! So much easier to make than you think, ready in 4 hours or LESS, and truly so delicious.

A croquembouche is a show-stopper type of dessert. It’s a tower of cream puffs, glued together with caramel sauce and is absolutely stunning, not to mention delicious. I opted to use premade cream puffs because honestly, you can get some pretty dang good store-bought ones so why the heck not?