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Coconut cake – Cake with white frosting and covered in coconut flakes [2] Crème brûlée – Custard dessert with hard caramel top [ 3 ] Crème caramel – Custard dessert with soft caramel on top
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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.
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Opera cake (French: Gâteau opéra) is a French cake. It is made with layers of almond sponge cake (known as Joconde in French) soaked in coffee syrup, layered with ganache and coffee (or Grand Marnier ) French buttercream , and covered in a chocolate glaze.
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]
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]
According to the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, mille-feuille recipes from 17th century French and 18th century English cookbooks are a precursor to layer cakes.. The earliest mention of the name mille-feuille itself appears in 1733 in an English-language cookbook written by French chef Vincent La Chapelle. [4]