Hard Caramel Glaze
The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. You may well know pièce montée better as croquembouche.  A towering high pyramid or cone of profiteroles filled