How To: Bake a French chocolate croquembouche for Christmas

A croquem-what? A croquembouche is not the easiest dessert pastry to pronounce, but trust us, once you've made this sugary, fluffy French dessert once you'll never forget its name again.

A croquembouche is a stacked French cake made from many little profiteroles, and can be sprinkled with caramelized sugar for extra sweetness.

You haven't really started the holiday season until you've created and built a croquembouche. It's perfect for the holidays - festive and sweet, and airy and light. This croquembouche is held together by chocolate as a glue and who could argue with that?