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02-27-2008, 02:40 AM
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This was the cake at one of my favorite weddings:
Here's the description from Martha Stewart:
"This towering confection is the traditional wedding cake of France. The name croquembouche, which means "crunch in the mouth," refers to the hard caramel that coats delicate puffs of pate a choux filled with vanilla cream. The top tier rests on an edible nougatine base, made of caramel and crushed almonds. The roses and ribbons are pastillage, a sugar paste that dries with a porcelain-like finish; the giant swirls are pulled sugar."
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02-27-2008, 07:47 AM
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This was our wedding cake. It was just vanilla with butter cream icing...obviously topped with strawberries! Yum!
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02-27-2008, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
This was the cake at one of my favorite weddings:
Here's the description from Martha Stewart:
"This towering confection is the traditional wedding cake of France. The name croquembouche, which means "crunch in the mouth," refers to the hard caramel that coats delicate puffs of pate a choux filled with vanilla cream. The top tier rests on an edible nougatine base, made of caramel and crushed almonds. The roses and ribbons are pastillage, a sugar paste that dries with a porcelain-like finish; the giant swirls are pulled sugar." |
How in the heck did they cut that!? I picture it just falling over once any attempt was made to move it
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02-27-2008, 02:49 PM
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How in the heck did they cut that!? I picture it just falling over once any attempt was made to move it
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I think it's more like Jenga - whoever takes a cupcake out that causes it to topple has to eat the rest of the cupcakes left. 
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02-27-2008, 02:51 PM
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I think it's more like Jenga - whoever takes a cupcake out that causes it to topple has to eat the rest of the cupcakes left. |
Seriously! I guess "cut" isn't the appropriate word but but you got my point.
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02-28-2008, 04:40 PM
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03-04-2008, 04:26 PM
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I'm pretty sure you're just supposed to take them off of the tower, like picking pastry fruit off of a tree (sorry for the reference, I'm high on caffeine and it seems to make sense to me).
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Yes, you just take it apart from the top. Croquembouche is not a cake as we picture them; they're little caramelized pastry balls, which you then drizzle chocolate sauce, caramel, or frut over. My friend chose this as her wedding "cake" because it's what her parents had at their wedding. It was a site to see! Actually, theirs did not have the two tiers - it was just a tall pyramid about 6 feet tall! Oh, and it was SO GOOD.
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03-05-2008, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Yes, you just take it apart from the top. Croquembouche is not a cake as we picture them; they're little caramelized pastry balls, which you then drizzle chocolate sauce, caramel, or frut over. My friend chose this as her wedding "cake" because it's what her parents had at their wedding. It was a site to see! Actually, theirs did not have the two tiers - it was just a tall pyramid about 6 feet tall! Oh, and it was SO GOOD.
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I love Croquembouche!
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03-06-2008, 06:30 PM
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I've heard of some couples doing cheesecake for their weddings lately. Anyone here do something other than cake like cheesecake, pie, etc?
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03-06-2008, 06:34 PM
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I've heard of some couples doing cheesecake for their weddings lately. Anyone here do something other than cake like cheesecake, pie, etc?
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A friend of mine served apple pie.
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03-07-2008, 12:24 AM
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I've heard of some couples doing cheesecake for their weddings lately. Anyone here do something other than cake like cheesecake, pie, etc?
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My friends that got married last fall had truffles.
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03-07-2008, 02:51 AM
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One of my friends had three tiers of cupcakes.
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03-07-2008, 10:02 AM
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I've heard of some couples doing cheesecake for their weddings lately. Anyone here do something other than cake like cheesecake, pie, etc?
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My bio sister's cake had cheesecake in it. Each tier was 2 layers, the bottom layer was white chocolate raspberry cheesecake and the top layer was pound cake with raspberry jelly (or whatever it is) in the middle - very yummy.
Mine was just your regular 3 tier almond pound cake with buttercream, but still very pretty and tastey 
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03-07-2008, 11:31 AM
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My (biological) sister had a cheesecake. My brother-in-law doesn't like cake. It was a big square cheesecake, covered in fresh strawberries with a smaller square elevated in the middle with a mound of stawberries on top.
They didn't do a traditional cake cutting, it was just cut up and served at the end of dinner as the dessert. (but it did sit in the middle of the room during dinner). My sister said that the biggest problem was that cheesecake can't sit out under the lights as long as regular cake- hence them serving it for dessert.
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03-10-2008, 02:47 PM
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Here's our cake:
I'm trying to find a picture of our groom's cake - it looked like the Home Depot Tony Stewart NASCAR. Haha =)
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