Paris-Brest

When my dh was home this holiday season, he made me a beautiful dessert called Paris-Brest.   This dessert was inspired by the road race from Paris to Brest and resembles a car tire.   First he made the pastry cream.   Then he made a praline that he reduced to a dust in my food processor.   Then he folded that praline dust into the pastry cream.   

Then he went to work on the pastry rings.   They resembled eclair dough and were made by cooking the dough and then piping it onto parchment paper and baking them.

 The successful finished pastry on the left, the first try that got too dark on the right.

 He split the finished ring in half, spread the cream on the bottom and then put a "inner tube" ring in the middle of the cream.   Then he spread more cream on top of the inner tube and put on the top part of the big ring.

 Ta-da!   The finished product.   And it was very very good.