{"id":114,"date":"2009-01-03T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-01-24T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T01:08:23","slug":"croquembouche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Croquembouche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the collapsing wedding cake in scorching summer heat a few years back, I had been hesitant to try my hand at another croquembouche. (literally translated from french, it means croque = bite, en = in, bouche= mouth). But banking on the colder temperatures I made one for Christmas. It is a lot of work as you must first make over one hundred &#8220;choux&#8221; (cream puffs), then a nougat base, then several batches of cr\u00e8me p\u00e2tissi\u00e8re in a variety of flavours (I made vanilla and mocha), next you must shoot this preparation inside the puffs using a pastry bag and finally you must make a caramel that will serve as glue to hold the puffs together and  decoration as you spin caramel threads all around the pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>I am disappointed as the photo is not that spectacular, but I was very proud that it held AND tasted good!.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/croquembouche3.jpg\" title=\"croquembouche3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/croquembouche3.jpg\" alt=\"croquembouche3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the collapsing wedding cake in scorching summer heat a few years back, I had been hesitant to try my hand at another croquembouche. (literally translated from french, it means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}