Croquembouche
A tall cone of cream puffs bound with caramel, the traditional French wedding cake.
Also: piece montee, pièce montée
The croquembouche, which means crunch in the mouth, is a tower of small choux pastry puffs filled with cream and held together with threads of caramel, sometimes decorated with sugared almonds, flowers or spun sugar. It is the classic French wedding dessert, also called a piece montee, and is served at weddings, baptisms and communions. The couple may cut or break the base together, and the guests take their puffs. It is thought to have been developed in the nineteenth century in France.
Region: Europe