For those looking to step outside the realm of the traditional three- (or four- or five- or twelve-) tiered wedding cake, you could go the route of wedding cupcakes, which Ilona recently wrote about, or you could go maybe even a bit farther off the beaten path and order a French croquembouche.A croquembouche is a tower of pastries held together with caramel or syrup and often decorated with threads of caramel, sugared almonds, chocolate, flowers, or ribbons, and the pastries are usually filled with a delicious cream. According to this European bakery, the croquembouche has been the traditional celebration cake in France for nearly 300 years.
You may not want to have a croquembouche at an outdoor wedding, though, because apparently the syrup or caramel glue that holds the tower together doesn't do so well in humidity (or heat, I'd imagine).
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