15 minutes with Costco Creme Puffs. (Yes, the sugar trail could be absent -- maybe needed to spend 20 minutes.)2013 Update: Just saw a show with baking contest and Pate a Choux for Tree (croque en bouche).
Granted I didn't make these cream puffs, but they were super simple to put together to make the tree.
The sugar/water hot syrup is plenty sticky and sets up quick enough that you can build the tree with no internal supports.
Steps:
a. Cream Puffs
b. Hot sugar/water (sugar, water...some use sugar, water, corn syrup...I forget my formula, but it was sticky and very hot...1 cup sugar, a couple tablespoons water). Stir constantly, through boiling, until it turns amber.
c. Dip the bottom of the puff in the hot sugar water, place on tray you plan on for serving.
d. Make a ring, with the puffs touching each other. (of course, you need to eyeball circumference to make sure you have enough cream puffs to make it to the top).
e. Next row, same thing...hot sugar on bottom, this time stuck onto the puffs below.
f. Repeat until you reach the top.
The globs on here are from the end when my sugar wasn't as hot -- after the tree was assembled. . Perhaps if I had re-heated or worked on "spinning it" (make sugar trails on rods that I could transfer here) it might have looked more professional. Picked some flowers from the winter garden to add decorations.
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