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A croquembouche (French: [kʁɔ.kɑ̃.buʃ]) or croque-en-bouche is a French dessert consisting of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. In Italy and France, it is often served at weddings, baptisms and First Communions.
Puits d'amour – French pastry filled with cream or jelly; Religieuse – French pastry; Savarin – Cake saturated in rum; St. Honoré cake – French pastry dessert; Tarte des Alpes – Pastry originating from the southern Alps; Tarte Tropézienne – French dessert pastry; Tuile – French wafer; Viennoiserie – Type of baked goods ...
Pastries on display at a bakery (boulangerie) in Lille, France Pastries from a bakery in Montreal, Quebec. A pâtisserie (French:), patisserie in French or pastry shop in English, is a type of bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets. In French, the word pâtisserie also denotes a pastry as well as pastry-making.
Kouign-amann (/ ˌ k w iː n æ ˈ m ɑː n /; Breton: [ˌkwiɲ aˈmãn]; pl. kouignoù-amann) is a sweet, round Breton laminated dough pastry, originally made with bread dough (nowadays sometimes viennoiserie dough), containing layers of butter and incorporated sugar, similar in fashion to puff pastry albeit with fewer layers.
The full term is commonly said to be a corruption of French pâte à chaud (lit. ' hot pastry/dough ').The term "choux" has two meanings in the early literature. One is a kind of cheese puff, first documented in the 13th century; the other corresponds to the modern choux pastry and is documented in English, German, and French cookbooks in the 16th century.
Viennoiseries (French: [vjɛnwazʁi]; English: "things in the style of Vienna") are French baked goods made from a yeast-leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients (particularly eggs, butter, milk, cream and sugar), which give them a richer, sweeter character that approaches that of pastry. [1]
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The French word profiterole, 'small profit, gratification', has been used in cuisine since the 16th century. [ 6 ] In the 17th century, profiteroles were small hollow bread rolls filled with a mixture of sweetbreads, truffles, artichoke bottoms, mushrooms, pieces of partridge, pheasant, or various poultry, accompanied by garnish.