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Clafoutis is a baked French dessert of fruit, traditionally black cherries, [1] arranged in a buttered dish and covered with a thick flan-like batter. Crème brûlée consists of a rich custard base topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel.
Profiterole. Some French pastries also start with pâte à choux, or choux paste, a hot dough made by cooking water, butter, flour, and eggs together in a saucepan; when it bakes, it puffs up and ...
The dish most likely stems from millasson or millas, [1] a dessert originating from the south-east of France, made from millet flour and cornflour.Two layers form whilst the millasson is cooked, one being a custard layer and the other being a genoise layer, due to the mixing of sugar and eggs.
The madeleine (French pronunciation:, English: / ˈ m æ d l eɪ n / or / ˌ m æ d l ˈ eɪ n / [1]) or petite madeleine ([pə.tit mad.lɛn]) is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France.
Saint-honoré cake cross-section. The St. Honoré cake, usually known by its French name gâteau St-Honoré, and also sometimes called St. Honoratus cake, [1] is a pastry dessert named for the French patron saint of bakers and pastry chefs, Saint Honoré or Honoratus (d. 600 AD), Bishop of Amiens. [2]
The Nonnette is a French pastry, translating literally to "little nuns". It is a small gingerbread cake made of honey, rye flour, and usually filled with orange marmalade or honey. It is also typically glazed with a mixtures of egg whites, sugar, and lemon juice, and is frequently served during Christmastime. [1]
Gâteau nantais is a cake originating in the city of Nantes in France. It is a soft, round pound cake, made of flour, sugar, [1] salted butter, [2] eggs, and almond meal, [3] then dampened with a punch of rum and lemon, [1] sometimes with an apricot gelée centre. [3]
A merveilleux cake. The merveilleux (marvelous) is a small cake that originated in Belgium and is now found in France and some U.S. cities. [1] It consists of a sandwich of two light meringues welded with whipped cream which has been covered with whipped cream and dusted with chocolate shavings. A candied cherry sometimes decorates the cake.