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Nonnette (dessert) – French gingerbread cake; 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
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]
La Maison Stohrer is credited as the oldest pâtisserie in Paris. [1] [2] It was founded in 1730 by Nicolas Stohrer. [1]Stohrer worked as pastry chef to Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. [1]
The pastry, round, i.e. wheel-shaped, was created in 1910 by Louis Durand, pâtissier of Maisons-Laffitte, at the request of Pierre Giffard, to commemorate the 1,200 km (750 mi) Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race he had initiated in 1891. [1]
French language and culture distinguish pastry baking (pâtisserie) from bread baking (boulangerie), and this show only features the former. So for each challenge, the bakers must show mastery of different styles of pâtisserie--- cakes, gateaux, desserts, entremets, pies, tortes, etc., to make something fitting the theme and the limits of the ...
The flavor options are only limited by imagination. Famed French patisserie Ladurée has created more than 200 flavors, including. Blackcurrant violet. Caramel. Chocolate. Coffee. Lemon. Passion ...
A typical Japanese-style Mont Blanc in the mid-20th century was a small individual cake, composed of a sponge cake covered with spiraling vermicelli of yellow chestnut puree, and topped with a yellow preserved chestnut. [58]: 56 [59] Records from the 1930s prove that shops were offering similar cakes by 1934, [60] and cakes named Mont Blanc by ...
[2] [7] Some French bakeries still sell this cake under the name of "visitandine". [8] According to another tradition, the cake became popular in the financial district of Paris surrounding the Paris stock exchange, as the cake could easily be stored in the pocket for long periods without being damaged. [9] [10]