Croquembouche

Fifi's free-form croquembouche is decorative enough to be a centerpiece, and small enough to be suitable at even small dinners. Standing about 14" tall, it consists of forty-some 1 1/2" creampuffs filled with a double-chocolate praline pastry cream. Each puff is coated with a thin crisp crust of hard-crack sugar (not heavy caramelized sugar) as a traditional croquembouche should be; the entire form is then surrounded by a golden webbing of spun, lightly caramelized sugar.

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