Just a really quick update!

Haven't been posting on here a lot recently (the last post was really delayed in being published) this is due to a few things, one being a low motivation to make things and the other is anxiety in posting my bakes to the internet!

Hoping to over come both of these and I have a minions themed bake coming soon! I'm making it tomorrow but the post probably won't go out until Sunday/Monday due to commitments!

Keep Baking
~Kat

Croquembouche

For starters; what a word! Apparently it means crunch in the mouth, the more you know eh? I've been wanting to make one of these ever since I saw it on The Bake Off a few years ago, I never managed to get round to it due to time and studies but now I have some free time I wanted to tackle the monster ;)

After gathering my ingredients I then set to making the choux pastry; first impressions? Great! It was nice and easy to make, a lot of arm work, but nice and simple :) Once the pastry was made I piped in onto two trays lined with greaseproof paper.

I did have a major problem with about 2 thirds of the buns sticking to the greaseproof paper, now this could of been due to several faults on my behalf but I don't really know what one! End thought; I should have probably used silicone to stop the sticking.

Once the buns were made I started on the crème pâtissière, this was also simple to make and was then left to cool in the fridge. Once it was cool, I piped the crème pât into the buns and made a simple caramel to "glue" the structure together.

Overall thoughts with the final project? It was fun to make, not too hard (just time consuming), went down really well with the family and looked really impressive at the end! I discovered during this baking experiment that I really don't like crème pât! If I personally was to make this again I would fill it with whipped cream! :)

Keep Baking

~Kat