Cooking Club Week 3

Lily has been watching a season of Master Chef Junior (news to me that these Junior chef shows even existed).  None the less, her requests for our weekly after school cooking club have gotten way more complex.  This last week we made a croquembouche.  Yes, I had to look it up.  It is stuffed pastry (like cream puffs) loaded onto a pyramid structure.  It took me about an hour just to make the cream part in advance.  Then of course we had to make the pastries and watch them rise.  Amazing that it worked.  Then the kids piped the cream into the pastries.  Amazing and messy for sure.  And there final product turned out pretty darned good.  I was definitely proud of their patience.  And boy were they tasty.