Piece Montée
>> Sunday, May 30, 2010
A piece montée, which means "mounted piece" in French, also commonly known as croquembouche, refers to an assembled structure of cream puffs to form a towering dessert centerpiece. Cream puffs are truly reminiscent of my childhood; my mum made the best and whilst I love eating them, I've never attempted making cream puffs before. Pâte à choux was on my to-bake-before-Paris list, so I was extremely excited when I first learned about May's challenge. The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri.
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