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Ganache (/ ɡ ə ˈ n æ ʃ / or / ɡ ə ˈ n ɑː ʃ /; [1] French:) is a glaze, icing, sauce, or filling for pastries, made from chocolate and cream. [2]In the broad sense of the term, ganache is an emulsion between (melted) solid chocolate (which is made with cocoa butter, the fat phase) and a water-based ingredient, which can be cream, milk or fruit pulp. [3]
Mock cream or buttercream is a simple buttercream made by creaming together butter and powdered sugar to the desired consistency and lightness. Some or all of the butter can be replaced with margarine, or shortening. [1] [2] A small amount of milk or cream is added to adjust the texture. Usually twice as much sugar as butter by weight is used.
A layer cake with sponge cake, cream, chocolate, raspberry, egg, vanilla, and marzipan. Pain d'épices: Reims and Alsace, France: A French quick bread containing rye flour, honey, and spices. Pain de Gênes: Genoa, France: A cake made primarily from almond paste, eggs, and melted butter. Pão de Ló [31] Italy [31]
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
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 almond cake; Gâteau à la broche – Traditional Lithuanian cake
The word comes from the French éclair, meaning 'flash of lightning', so named because it is eaten quickly (in a flash); [5] however some believe that the name is due to the glistening of the frosting resembling lightning.
Seven-minute frosting is a soft meringue. It does not store well. Royal icing, uncooked egg white and sugar. Dries hard and keeps for months. Whipped cream, may be used for decorating cakes. It does not store well. Ermine frosting, or boiled milk frosting, involves cooking flour and sugar with milk to make the frosting base.
Genoise is a basic building block of much French pâtisserie and is used for making several different types of cake. The batter usually is baked to form a thin sheet. An 1884 cookbook gives a simple recipe for a genoise: [8]