It has become a tradition when beloved niece (and glutton for de-I Sandia Outfitters experience punishment) visits that we throw ourselves into a frenzy of dessert architectural construction. After having tackled the Croquembouche - a tower of cream puffs - we researched to find another classic example of French dessert architecture. After much looking we found what we wanted - The Chateaufort Beignet.
Beignet are basically donuts. The Chateaufort is the French word for a fortress castle. So this is essentially a castle made of donuts. Compared to the Croquembouche which has a fairly rigid shape expectation, the Chateaufort Beignet offers a great range of creative opportunities when one thinks of all the kinds of castles one could replicate.
On our part, we try to make as many of the component parts as possible. That is part of the challenge. In this case, we were making two different kinds of donuts (cake donuts and risen filled donuts), actually donuts holes as a full sized donuts would make for a gigantic structure. Not ready for that. There was also a question of just how much fine work we could pull off. If one looks up a list of castles in France, it is overwhelming the number and the variety of design. As complete novices that was going to be too much So I went back to the most basic of early castle designs. And given the crudeness of our building materials, we decided that the 'ruins' look would be appropriate.
Making the Donuts
Team Chateaufort Beignet
How much Crisco does it take to make 180 donut wholes
A production line of donut holes ready for frying
RMG, Mistress of the Fry Station
Finished Donut Holes
Filling the Donuts
Assembling the Chateaufort
The Finished Product - The Glory That Is The Chateaufort Beignet!
5 comments:
a tremendous amount of effort undertaken! I can't help but wonder if could not attain similar results if (perhaps not as fun, definitely less clean up) you'd just tipped a box out of purchased donut holes and glue them together with frosting (for consistency across the exercise - also purchased). Maybe this is the version we can do when we are in town. Hell, we can make this a tradition if it feels more authentic: the low-code version of your RM culinary experiments.
LOL. I didn't know you were videoing, and I didn't know until I watched that I talk to donut holes...
I wonder if the frosting would be firm enough Alexis. You will see when you get here that the candy syrup (cement) hardens really hard (we froze the thing! You will be able to try it!) Besides, I think Mom is done with food architecture lol.
Awesome fun!!!
We were considering visiting. The donut hole thing looked ok, but not the washing of the floor on hands and knees. May have to research another Outfitter company.
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