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I got married in the US but had the traditional French cake: the "Pièce Montée", a tower of cream puffs that are glued together with caramel. It satisfies both
by athenot 8y ago
I got married in the US but had the traditional French cake: the "Pièce Montée", a tower of cream puffs that are glued together with caramel. It satisfies both the flashy tower requirement, and is relatively easy to dish out since it's just a matter of pulling it apart, serving 2-3 cream puffs per person.
And it tastes way better than the US cakes which are glorified pound cakes with tasteless super-sweet icing.
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- masklinn 8y agoFWIW a pièce montée refers to any large/"architectual" pastry, so a tiered cake would be considered a pièce montée. The specific dessert you're talking about is the croquembouche. Delicious, but the caramel ones are so damn sticky. FWIW an other common option for pièces montées is to use multiple cakes on supports, which avoids the structural issues and limited edibility of a tiered cake, and offers more flexibility (e.g. depending on layout you may be able to use cakes with pretty different looks and ingredients, or you can create pretty cool-looking scenes).