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This is a list of desserts from the French cuisine. In France, a chef who prepares desserts and pastries is called a pâtissier , who is part of a kitchen hierarchy termed brigade de cuisine (kitchen staff).
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.
The milk-cream strudel is an oven-baked pastry dough stuffed with a sweet bread, raisin and cream filling and served in the pan with hot vanilla sauce. [67] Mille-feuille: France: The mille-feuille ("thousand sheets"), vanilla slice, cream slice, custard slice, also known as the Napoleon or kremschnitt, is a pastry originating in France.
Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to the thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill ...
Crème chiboust is a crème pâtissière (pastry cream) lightened with meringue, though whipped cream is sometimes substituted for the meringue. It is the filling for the gâteau St-Honoré, supposedly created and developed in 1847 by the pastry chef M. Chiboust of the pastry shop that was located on the Paris street Rue Saint-Honoré. [1]
The Wisconsin State Fair is known for its giant cream puffs. [19] [20] In Hawaii, coco puffs (not to be confused with Cocoa Puffs) made by Liliha Bakery are a popular dessert. They are filled with chocolate creme patissiere and topped with a frosting known as "chantilly" (similar to German chocolate cake sans coconut and nuts). [21]
Micka's pâtisserie "La Tarte Tropézienne" Tarte tropézienne, also known as "la tarte de Saint-Tropez", is a dessert pastry consisting of a halved brioche filled with a mix of two creams, thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) and buttercream, [1] and topped with pearl sugar.
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. Each case is topped with a ganache of the same flavour as the filling, then attached to each other using piped ...