Croque-En-Bouche is a traditional French dessert that consists of a number of small cream-filled pastry puffs that are arranged into a pyramid shape and then coated with a hard caramel candy.
From Paul Bocuse's French Cooking.
Pastry that crumbles in your mouth.
Method:Place milk, butter, salt, and sugar in a saucepan.
Bring to aboil, add the flour, dry the dough on the heat for about 4 minutes, beat inthe eggs, one at a time.
Butter the pastry sheets, put the dough into apastry bag, and pipe 60 small puffs onto the sheets.
Bake in a 400 degreeoven for about 20 minutes.
Cream Filling:Steep a vanilla bean with a pinch of salt in 4 1/2 cupsmilk; in a bowl, mix the egg yolks with 1 1/2 cups sugar and then add theflour; stir into the milk with a whisk and cook over a low flame for a good5 minutes; use to fill the puffs.
Heat 1 1/2 cups sugar until it melts and turns caramel color.
Oil theinside of a cone-shaped mold.
Dip the puffs into the caramel.
Startingfrom the point, stuff the whole mold with puffs, each one dipped intocaramel.
Let cool.
Unmold.
Decorate with caramelized almonds andcaramelized orange slices.
Ingredients
Directions
From Paul Bocuse's French Cooking.
Pastry that crumbles in your mouth.
Method:Place milk, butter, salt, and sugar in a saucepan.
Bring to aboil, add the flour, dry the dough on the heat for about 4 minutes, beat inthe eggs, one at a time.
Butter the pastry sheets, put the dough into apastry bag, and pipe 60 small puffs onto the sheets.
Bake in a 400 degreeoven for about 20 minutes.
Cream Filling:Steep a vanilla bean with a pinch of salt in 4 1/2 cupsmilk; in a bowl, mix the egg yolks with 1 1/2 cups sugar and then add theflour; stir into the milk with a whisk and cook over a low flame for a good5 minutes; use to fill the puffs.
Heat 1 1/2 cups sugar until it melts and turns caramel color.
Oil theinside of a cone-shaped mold.
Dip the puffs into the caramel.
Startingfrom the point, stuff the whole mold with puffs, each one dipped intocaramel.
Let cool.
Unmold.
Decorate with caramelized almonds andcaramelized orange slices.
