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A religieuse (French pronunciation: [ʁəliʒjøz] ⓘ) is a French pastry made of a small choux pastry case stacked on top of a larger one, both filled with crème pâtissière, commonly flavoured with chocolate [1] or mocha.
Pain au chocolat – Viennoiserie sweet roll (also called Chocolatine in the South part of France) Pain aux raisins – French pastry; Palmier – French pastry; Paris–Brest – Pastry; Petit four – French confection; Puits d'amour – French pastry filled with cream or jelly
This is a list of choux pastry dishes. Choux pastry, or pâte à choux, is a light pastry dough that contains only butter, water, flour and eggs. The high moisture content of the dough causes it to produce steam when cooked, which puffs the pastry.
A profiterole (French: [pʁɔfitʁɔl]), chou à la crème (French: [ʃu a la kʁɛm]), also known alternatively as a cream puff (US), is a filled French choux pastry ball with a typically sweet and moist filling of whipped cream, custard, pastry cream, or ice cream.
Pain au chocolat: France "Chocolate bread", also called a chocolatine in southern France and in French Canada, is a French pastry consisting of a cuboid-shaped piece of yeast-leavened laminated dough, similar to puff pastry, with one or two pieces of chocolate in the centre. Pain aux raisins: 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]
A mille-feuille (French: [mil fœj]; lit. ' thousand-sheets '), [notes 1] also known by the names Napoleon in North America, [1] [2] vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice, is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream.
In France, it is typically a variant of the croissant or pain au chocolat, made with a leavened butter pastry with raisins added and shaped in a spiral with a crème pâtissière filling. However, in many areas of Northern Europe and North America, it is generally made with sweetened bread dough or brioche dough, rather than pastry.