{"id":60339,"date":"2017-11-03T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=60339"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:57:25","slug":"miniature-croquembouche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/miniature-croquembouche\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniature Croquembouche"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\" align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTgHOiK_Xl4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Tiny is just so magical and cute.  I love it.  In the comments some people said they like watching these sorts of videos with just music and no talking.  So mid-week I&#8217;ll upload the extended version which is just all the pretty footage with no talking and you can let me know which one you prefer. <\/p>\n<p>The house opposite us is up for sale, which reminded me of this time last year, we were doing home opens and making preparations for moving.  That craziness was followed by building the new kitchen and settling the kids into new schools.  I can&#8217;t believe that we have nearly been in Melbourne for one year now!  I am definitely looking forward to a far more relaxed Christmas this year.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"fn\">Croquembouche Recipe <\/h4>\n<p>The recipe below makes enough profiteroles to make a big croquembouche that is 27cm (10.63 inches) tall and 10cm (3.94 inches) in diameter at the base.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nChoux Pastry Recipe<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"ingredient\"><span class=\"amount\">250mL (8.45 fluid ounces) or 1 cup<\/span> <span class=\"name\">water<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n75g (2.65 ounces) or 1\/3 cup Butter<br \/>\n160g (5.64 ounces) or 1 cup plain all purpose Flour<br \/>\n4 Eggs<\/p>\n<p>Preheat the oven to 220C (428 degrees Fahrenheit)<\/p>\n<p>Place the water and butter into a saucepan and heat until the butter is melted. Add the flour all at once and stir until it thickens and leaves the sides of the pan, continue to stir and heat for another minute until it forms a really stiff ball.<br \/>\nRemove it from the heat and add in the eggs one at a time mixing really well after each addition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/teeny-weeny-croquembouche-miniature-food--550x316.jpg\" alt=\"miniature baking ann reardon\" width=\"550\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60345\" data-wp-pid=\"60345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/teeny-weeny-croquembouche-miniature-food--550x316.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/teeny-weeny-croquembouche-miniature-food--300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/teeny-weeny-croquembouche-miniature-food--768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/teeny-weeny-croquembouche-miniature-food--400x230.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/teeny-weeny-croquembouche-miniature-food-.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Place into a piping bag and pipe dollops onto a lined baking tray.<br \/>\nBake for 20 minutes at 220\u00baC or until golden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastry Cream Recipe<\/strong><br \/>\n500mL (16.91 fluid ounces) or 2 cups milk<br \/>\n60g (2.12 ounces) or 4 egg yolks<br \/>\n164g (5.78 ounces) or 3\/4 cup sugar<br \/>\n30g (1.06 ounces) or 3 Tbsp flour<br \/>\nWhisk together the egg yolks and sugar until pale, whisk in the flour. Heat the milk until it just begins to boil.  Remove from the heat and add a little hot milk at a time to the yolk mixture, whisking as you do. Return to the pan and stir until well thickened.  Allow to cool then pipe pastry cream into the centre of each profiterole.  If you thought filling a piping bag was tricky, you should try doing it at 1\/12th scale.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/miniature-baking-dollhouse-mini-cooking-550x357.jpg\" alt=\"miniature baking how to cook that\" width=\"550\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-60344\" data-wp-pid=\"60344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/miniature-baking-dollhouse-mini-cooking-550x357.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/miniature-baking-dollhouse-mini-cooking-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/miniature-baking-dollhouse-mini-cooking-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/miniature-baking-dollhouse-mini-cooking-400x259.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/miniature-baking-dollhouse-mini-cooking.jpg 1491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crispy Caramel <\/strong><br \/>\n150mL (5.07 fluid ounces) or 1\/2 cup water<br \/>\n450g (15.87 ounces) or 2 cups sugar<br \/>\n21g (0.74 ounces) or 1 Tbsp liquid glucose or light corn syrup<br \/>\nHeat over high heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Wash down the sides of the pan with a wet pastry brush. Leave unstirred until it just starts to go golden. Remove from the heat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assembly<\/strong><br \/>\nIf making a mini one you can then just use the hot sugar to join it together.  If making a larger one you will need to give it support while building it due tot he weight of the profiteroles.  See this previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/croquembouche-recipe-crockenbush\/\">croquembouche <\/a>post for help with building.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/croquembouche-miniature-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"miniature baking 1\/12 scale food\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"photo\" data-wp-pid=\"60343\" \/><br \/>\n<h7 class=\"updated\">Copyright \u00a9 2017 Reardon Media Pty Ltd.  All rights reserved. <\/h7><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\">How To Cook That<\/a>\n<\/div>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/miniature-croquembouche\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/croquembouche-miniature-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"miniature baking 1\/12 scale food\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/croquembouche-miniature-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/croquembouche-miniature-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/croquembouche-miniature-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/croquembouche-miniature-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"60343\" \/><\/a><p>&nbsp; Tiny is just so magical and cute. I love it. In the comments some people said they like watching these sorts of videos with just music and no talking. So mid-week I&#8217;ll upload the extended version which is just all the pretty footage with no talking and you can let me know which one you prefer. The house opposite us is up for sale, which reminded me of this time last year, we were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,3031],"tags":[31,1518,2419,2892,952,2891,2893,2894,1739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60348,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60339\/revisions\/60348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}