Croquembundt. Enough said.
It's
Day #23 of I Like Big Bundts. Pull out your calendar. Go ahead. I'll wait. One week from today...it's National Bundt Day! Seriously great time of year! Make a Bundt cake to celebrate the awesomeness of the Bundt. I Like Big Bundts because they have a low frosting to cake ratio (I'm a frosting hater), are super easy to make, and can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. :) Bring a Bundt to an office meeting and you get out of taking minutes. Maybe not, but it'll make the meeting more interesting.
After making 200 cream puffs for Jun's wedding (post about the dessert bar and beautiful ceremony is in the works), I felt like a cream puff machine. Pastry cream...you don't freak me out anymore! And I have my friend
Pastry Chef-in-Training Rosie who is attending Johnson & Wales to thank for that!
I've never made a
Croquembouche, the tradition French wedding cake that is a tower of cream puffs and caramel. And why start with the tradition when you have 30 Bundts to make? When I saw Matt Bite's awesome
Churroquembouche, I knew what I wanted to try.
It didn't come out perfect, and kinda just looks like an unfinished croquembouche, but you get the idea. I hope you can see the
vision...and the fact that I made this at 5:15 am on a rainy Monday morning! :)
Don't forget to enter my
Amazon giveaway for my 39 11/12th birthday. I'm less than one month away from my 40th birthday so please help me celebrate! :) The giveaway ends Sunday, November 14th (yes, that is ONE day before National Bundt Day!)
Also, if you make a Bundt for National Bundt Day, I'll send you a JustJennDesign's
I Like Big Bundts button! They are small and stylin'. You'll need to send me a link to the post (or a photo if you don't have a blog) and I'm going to do a round up after National Bundt Day. Also, be sure head over to
JustJenn's site for her free shipping week!
See you back here tomorrow for...wait for it...another Bundt! - mary "I'm 39 11/12 and one day years old" the food librarian
You are too cute. I think this is my favorite looking bundt of yours. And girl, I already made my bundt for next week. Nothing as elaborate as this but I made it in your honor :)
ReplyDeleteoh what a creative take on the bundt!
ReplyDeletehow creative! I definitely will be making a bundt :)
ReplyDeleteYou are on fire now! Great bundt, so original.
ReplyDeleteSo I don't usually comment here, but I just had to drop in and say that this is brilliant, spectacular, and I just love it! You're definitely making me want to break out the bundt pans with your bundt celebration, too.
ReplyDeleteLove it!!!! Can't wait to see the dessert bar pix!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing!! Totally see your vision. It reminds me of super fancy monkey bread. :) I'm excited to make my bundt...hopefully it will live up to my vision for it!
ReplyDeleteI love this bundt!!! What great pics. I can almost taste the delicious pastry creme. Mmm! Love you and miss you tons, Rach, Lee and Caden
ReplyDeleteWow that's really creative not to mention amazingly impressive! You have so many great bundt ideas!!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh croquembundt! You are too hilarious! I was watching some rerun of a next iron chef episode at like midnight last night and somehow everyone made croquembouches - and now you did too!
ReplyDeleteThat is simply gorgeous - I think there will be some croquembundts made for holiday celebrations this year!
ReplyDeleteCroquembundt..... hilarious.
ReplyDeleteJenn needs to make those buttons as magnets... my fridge would be covered with them.
Oy. Last year I succumbed to 7 days of bundts thanks to your blog. This year finds me working 75+ hours a week but I think I'm going to have to find a way to make National Bundt Day happen nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteyou crack me up Mary! Croquembundt - of course!!
ReplyDeleteClever bundt!
ReplyDeleteI AM going to make another bundt one week from today for a certain special occasion (or two) so I wasn't sure if you want the link for that or one that I did recently and posted already--or both.
Here's the link for the previous one.
http://www.bakingandboys.com/2010/10/marbled-chocolate-sweet-potato-cake.html
This is so beautiful! Ok I'm going to get a bundt pan and do a bundt for national bundt day! I want one of those adorable buttons!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful bundt !!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! A Croquembundt - fab!
ReplyDeleteFabulous, what a great post. Hope you have an amazing 40th birthday too.
ReplyDeleteLife begins at 40! I did for me LOL.
Wow this is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazingly brilliant! How fun for a party- I've got to snag this idea :)
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