Piece Montée -also known as Croquembouche

Even the name sounds yummy.... cro-kemmmmmmm-booooooooshhhhh.



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. I was super excited when I this month's challenge, for a bunch of reasons...

I won't have to make anyone

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les macarons parisienne

As many of you already know, or are finding out, I **LOVE** Paris. I love the architecture, the shopping, the language, the culture, the people... everything - especially the FOOD. And one of the Frenchest (is that a word? yes, I'm going to go ahead and decide it is) things you can eat while in Paris is le macaron. You can hardly walk down the street without seeing these shiny, colourful

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Petits Boutons de Financiers

A few years ago, while visiting friends in London, hubby and I took a quick jaunt over to Paris for three whole days and two nights. I was my first trip to France, and as soon as I stepped of the train at the Gare du Nord, I felt like I was home. Everything about that short three days was wonderful, save the sore feet... you see, we tend to enjoy seeing a new city on foot, so that's how we

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