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.
What a fun challenge. I made the classic version, vanilla creme pastissiere to fill and hard caramel to glue. The only thing non traditional was the shape I guess. At the end of the post you'll see my inspiration.
Making the dough. (totally felt like a work out)
Look how cute and tiny they are...!
Ta-Da! I was inspired by an art project I made in high school, It's a sculpture made entirely out of disposable plastic cups.
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Cool piece montee. Very modern and daring shape. Love it.
ReplyDeleteHoly smokes thats a lot of cups! Gorgeous photos every step of the way. Very yummy looking!!
ReplyDeleteawesome creativity! The puffs are perfect too... yummy!
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you would be posting :)
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely - and what an interesting and individual inspiration. How tall was your project in the end? How were the cups stuck together?
Ok, my jaw is on the floor. Love,love, LOVE your art project from school (I'm an art nerd) and the fact that your challenge was modeled after it - Wowza!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on becoming a dotcom! Great stuff, and brilliantly done on the challenge. What is life without inspiration, and I love yours! WOOT!!
ReplyDeleteThey look so cute!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your great comments!
ReplyDeletePoires au Chocolat: The cups were each glued with a single drop of glue, that even at a close look could not be seen. About the height I suppose it was around 3-4 meters (can't remember, but it sure was tall!).
Wow! Love the modern twist on this! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGreat inspiration on the shape, it looks super
ReplyDeletelooks yummy! always wanted to taste one of those
ReplyDeleteI love your inspiration! The piece montee looks delicious and all your cream puffs are so perfectly shaped!
ReplyDeleteWow yours looks fabulous, i agree all your cream puffs are amazingly perfect, im so jealous hehe :p
ReplyDeleteWhoa! That paper cup project looks amazing! and so does your croquembouche!
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Cheers!