pate a choux Archives - ZoëBakes eat dessert first Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:53:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 36689627 Christmas Croquembouche https://www.zoebakes.com/2024/12/05/christmas-croquembouche/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2024/12/05/christmas-croquembouche/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:39:02 +0000 https://zoebakes.com/?p=9203 A Christmas Croquembouche seems like the perfect way to celebrate this holiday season. Cream puffs held together by swirls of delicate caramel make for a gorgeous, festive display. More Holiday Recipes What Is Croquembouche? A croquembouche (kroke-em-boosh) is a tower of profiteroles (cream puffs) stuck together with a thin layer […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2024/12/05/christmas-croquembouche/feed/ 7 9203 Profiteroles https://www.zoebakes.com/2018/04/02/profiteroles/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2018/04/02/profiteroles/#respond Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:55:43 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=7795 Pâte à choux translates from French to mean “cabbage” in English. It is a far less romantic word, so we stick to the French. The truth is the puffs look just like little cabbages when piped and baked. Pâte à choux is the dough used for cream puffs (profiteroles) and […]

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]]> https://www.zoebakes.com/2014/01/21/eclairs/feed/ 49 6180 Cream Puffs and a Nest of Nuts! https://www.zoebakes.com/2008/11/16/a-tale-of-two-puffs-and-a-nest-of-nuts/ https://www.zoebakes.com/2008/11/16/a-tale-of-two-puffs-and-a-nest-of-nuts/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:00:15 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=1242 It is my birthday and I decided to make myself something fun to celebrate. Now that I am squarely in my 40s I find it especially important to make this occasion a special one. I was in the mood to play with sugar. It has been years, many years, since […]

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