Croquembouches for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm

I designed, baked, and constructed three croquembouches in the main entrance hall of the Royal Academy of Arts of Stockholm for the Annual Gala, featuring vanilla, chocolate, pistachio, rose and coffee flavors.

The croquembouche, a pyramid of small cream puffs welded by caramel, inscribes itself in the tradition of classic French pastry as a decorative centerpiece. It is also a modular structure, and as such can be understood within a contemporary formal framework. Created by Antonin Carême, the celebrated early nineteenth century pastry chef who stated that “the most noble of all the arts is Architecture, and its greatest manifestation is the art of the pastry chef", the croquembouche is in fact an avant-garde work of Architecture, both structural and spatial.