Daring Bakers Challenge May: Piece Montée

Daring Bakers Challenge May: Piece Montée The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake . Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. When I saw the challenge of this month I got right away this fantasy of a huge mountain of profiteroles with a very proud maker... me ;-) :-D This is something (not the being proud, but making the croquembouche ;-) ) I always wanted to do but somehow never got to it, so Cat thank you very much for the absolutely great challenge! And by the way, the pic of your wedding Piece Montée is MORE than impressive!! The mandatory part is making the paté a choux batter, making some height in your profiterole mountain and using the crème patisierre recipe, but with variations in flavour allowed. Cat gave us the variations of vanilla, chocolate or cofffee, but I always wanted to try the caramel one Nigella made, so I just add...