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Croquembouche

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Croquembouche are popular French dessert, consisting of cream or custard filled choux pastry balls called profiteroles, stacked in a cone shape and drizzled with caramel. Croquembouche, which translates as 'crunch in the mouth,' are ideal as celebration cakes for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and at Christmas time.

Our speciality are chocolate dipped croquembouche, in both white and dark chocolate, or your colour preference, including pastels, pinks, brights or multi-coloured. Handcrafted in Auckland, our croquembouche are available for delivery Auckland-wide, or collection from our premises by arrangement.

If you are interested in ordering a croquembouche, please send us an email with your request or use our enquiry form below. Thank you.

Croquembouche Sizing

Lovingly made by our talented pâtissier Andrew, our croquembouche are available in three sizes:

Number of Profiteroles	Approximate Size
50 Profiteroles	35cm in height
70 Profiteroles	45cm in height
100 Profiteroles	60cm in height

Why Choose a Croquembouche?

If there ever was a showstopping cake, it is the croquembouche! The ultimate wow factor, a croquembouche makes the best wedding cake to display at your reception. A croquembouche is also ideal for displaying at milestone birthdays and anniversaries, certain to be pride of place in everybody's photographs.

Rich in symbolism, a croquembouche brings prosperity and abundance to celebrations including marriage, where the cone-like structure represents the joining of two families, and the breaking of the chocolate or caramel shell, the happy couple's first married task together.

Requiring expert artistry and technical skill, which our pâtissier Andrew has, all of our croquembouche are true visual masterpieces and look almost too good to eat. We say almost, because we are confident you and your guests will definitely be wanting to taste it!