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Trim ends and cut into 12 pieces about 1 1/2" thick. Arrange in prepared pan, cut sides down, and cover with a kitchen towel. Let rise until puffed, 45 to 60 minutes.
Individual cake. The strict original Douarnenez recipe requires a ratio of 40 percent bread dough, 30 percent butter, and 30 percent sugar. [3] Traditionally, kouign-amann is baked as a large cake and served in slices, although recently, especially in North America, individual cupcake-sized pastries (kouignettes) have become more popular.
Croissant: France: A buttery flaky bread named for its distinctive crescent shape. Croissants are made of a leavened variant of puff pastry. The yeast dough is layered with butter, rolled and folded several times in succession, then rolled into a sheet, a technique called laminating. Croissants have long been a staple of French bakeries and ...
Almond cream is made from butter, sugar, eggs, almond meal, bread flour, and rum; and pastry cream is made from whole milk, vanilla bean, cornstarch, sugar, egg yolks or whole eggs, and butter. There are many variations on both of these creams as well as on the proportion of almond cream to pastry cream in frangipane. [3] [4]
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The earliest known recipe for the present-day croissant appears in 1905, although the name croissant appears among the "fantasy or luxury breads" in 1853. [12] Earlier recipes for non-laminated croissants can be found in the 19th century and at least one reference to croissants as an established French bread appeared as early as 1850. [13]
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Coussin de Lyon – Sweet pastry specialty of Lyon, France; Croissant – Crescent-shaped viennoiserie pastry; Croquembouche – French dessert; Croustade – Culinary term for a crust or pie-crust of any type; Divorcé - A pastry consisting of two choux separated by vanilla cream; Éclair – Cream-filled pastry [6] Financier – Small French ...