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Croquembouche
Croquembouche

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Literally meaning "Crack in one's mouth" a croquembouche is a traditional French wedding cake consisting of puff choux pastry filled with a vanilla creme patissiere, held together with a delicious cobweb of caramel. This simple design with spun sugar, holly and berries was perfect for a December wedding at Blenheim Palace.
   
Croquembouche
Croquembouche

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Although traditionally decorated with sugared almonds, most couples prefer the more delicate decoration of using fresh flowers or the brides bouquet to decorate the base of the cake. This 300 piece one has a very light cobweb of spun sugar strands.
   
Croquembouche
Croquembouche

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At FancyThat! we build our Croquembouche free hand. This Croquembouche has been drizzled with dark chocolate prior to serving making an excellent desert served with hot chocolate sauce and fresh fruit!
   
Fresh flowers
Fresh flowers

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We feel that the croquembouche looks best when displayed on a simple round silver stand with fresh seasonal flowers to complement your wedding colour scheme. Choose from a simple spray of flowers, as shown, or make a feature with a thick band of flowers around the entire base of the croquembouche.
   
Gloriosa Croquembouche
Gloriosa Croquembouche

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All of our croquembouche are built freehand, and have profiteroles throughout - they don't have a hollow cone inside. The more profiteroles inside the cake, the taller and more impressive it will be, and we will make it as tall as possible while ensuring that there is no risk at all of it collapsing. This croquembouche contains around 300 pieces and was drizzled with chocolate sauce immediately before serving.
   


Please note that in addition to our Oxfordshire base, we offer croquembouche from our new base in Battersea, London.

As there are so few croquembouche suppliers in the UK we have developed a way to build and transport your croquembouche safely and reliably. However, as the croquembouche must be made on the day it is to be eaten we do not recommend transport times of more than 4 hours. Your croquembouche will be delivered to your venue just before the time you need it, by a specially trained courier.

For transport times of more than 4 hours we can arrange for a chef to come to you to make the croquembouche on site. Please call or email for a quote, which will include costs and time for travelling. Depending on availability we are happy to travel overseas.

storage

Always made on the day of the wedding, by a trained pastry chef, the croquembouche relies on the correct balance of caramel to hold it together yet allow it to be dismantled. As it is freshly made, refrigeration is not required but it must be kept away from humidity or steam. Left overs, if any, should be eaten!

serving

High humidity softens the caramel making the croquembouche easy to pull apart. This occurs naturally in marquees, but otherwise a steamy kitchen is ideal. Serve three choux balls per guest as dessert, with a chocolate or caramel sauce, or one choux ball as wedding cake.

 
 
Fancy That Wedding Cakes
Larkhill Farm, Larkhill, Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 8PJ
Tel: 01235 770700 office hours | Tel: 01235 770066 evenings | Fax: 01235 770778 | Mob: 07074 770078

alison@wedding-cakes.co.uk