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Custard tart – Baked dessert consisting of an egg custard-filled pastry crust. Dariole – French pastry and dessert mold. Dame blanche – Ice cream dessert. Éclair – Cream-filled pastry. Flaugnarde – French dessert. Floating island – Dessert made with meringue and crème anglaise. Kouign-amann – Breton pastry.
lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
Genoise is a basic building block of much French pâtisserie and is used for making several different types of cake. The batter usually is baked to form a thin sheet. An 1884 cookbook gives a simple recipe for a genoise: [8] Work together briskly in a basin half a pound of flour, half a pound of sugar, and four eggs: after five minutes' good ...
Fondant icing, also commonly just called fondant (/ ˈfɒndənt /, French: [fɔ̃dɑ̃] ⓘ; French for 'melting'), is an icing used to decorate or sculpt cakes and pastries. It is made from sugar, water, gelatin, vegetable oil or shortening, and glycerol. [1] It does not have the texture of most icings; rolled fondant is akin to modelling clay ...
Main ingredients. Profiteroles, chocolate, caramel. Media: Croquembouche. A croquembouche (French: [kʁɔ.kɑ̃.buʃ]) or croque-en-bouche is a French dessert consisting of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. In Italy and France, it is often served at weddings, baptisms and First Communions.
Switzerland (French) A Swiss pastry made of chocolate, usually found in the French part of Switzerland. ChaSan. China (Huai'an) A traditional Chinese pastry that is popular in Jiangsu Province, China, and especially in Huai'an, a historic city which is considered as the home of Chasan. Chatti Pathiri.
Viennoiseries (French: [vjɛnwazʁi]; English: "things in the style of Vienna ") are French baked goods made from a yeast - leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients (particularly eggs, butter, milk, cream and sugar), which give them a richer, sweeter character that approaches that of pastry. [1]
The full term is commonly said to be a corruption of French pâte à chaud (lit. ' hot pastry/dough ').The term "choux" has two meanings in the early literature. One is a kind of cheese puff, first documented in the 13th century; the other corresponds to the modern choux pastry and is documented in English, German, and French cookbooks in the 16th century.