Croquembouche, the French pastry popularized in the early 19th century, is suddenly back on the banquet table. Seeking to evoke “a meeting of wise characters coming from a fantasy world,” the ...

Twenty-five years ago, or so, I found the magic. I was paging through a cookbook, the seminal “La Methode,” Jacques Pepin’s sequel to his even more seminal “La Technique.” As I was grazing through the ...

Holiday entertaining is all about wringing maximum impact from minimal effort. It’s pretty hard to beat a towering pile of caramel-drizzled profiteroles for drama alone, but the mighty croquembouche ...

We are celebrating the season with two special holiday episodes of Pastries with Paola before season two launches in the spring. First up is Paola's holiday showstopper, the Old Fashioned Doughnut ...

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If you’ve watched any part of Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, you might be prepared, in part, for the amount of innuendo served up in this clip from Monday night’s holiday-themed episode. In it ...

Think the Cronut is a complex dessert? Think again! Thanks to a recent MasterChef episode where the contestants were challenged to make croquembouche, the French dessert is on everyone's minds. Since ...

Even the crème de la crème don’t attempt this very often. It’s the culinary equivalent of a tightrope over Niagara Falls — which might explain why one of our foremost cooking stars has avoided trying ...

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There was one other major problem, which I can blame only on myself. The way Pepin makes his croquembouche, he dips the top of each puff in caramel (others leave out this step). It is much easier to ...