Christmas tree croquembouche

Bake chocolate croquembouche with this recipe, a show-stopping dessert featuring caramel-glazed profiteroles stacked and drizzled with rich chocolate.

Here is a splendid edible centerpiece for your New Year’s table, the croquembouche — row upon row of tiny cream puffs mounted into a conical tower and glittering with caramel. It’s fun to assemble and is guaranteed to bring gasps of delight from your guests.

Croquembouche / Christmas Tree Cream Puff

Light and airy cream puffs filled with luscious vanilla pastry cream. Piled up creating a magnificent tower.

Turn the classic French croquembouche into a cream-puff Christmas tree with a green glaze, colorful sprinkles and a sugar cookie star.

A croquembouche is a show-stopper type of dessert. It’s a tower of cream puffs, glued together with caramel sauce and is absolutely stunning, not to mention delicious. I opted to use premade cream puffs because honestly, you can get some pretty dang good store-bought ones so why the heck not?

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