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"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche ", [1] said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. The quote is taken to ...
Clafoutis is a baked French dessert of fruit, traditionally black cherries, [1] arranged in a buttered dish and covered with a thick flan-like batter. Crème brûlée consists of a rich custard base topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel.
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 madeleine (French pronunciation:, English: / ˈ m æ d l eɪ n / or / ˌ m æ d l ˈ eɪ n / [1]) or petite madeleine ([pə.tit mad.lɛn]) is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France.
The cake contains vanilla, eggs, milk, butter, flour, powdered sugar, salt and water. [2] The batter is liquid when it is placed into the oven and is cooked for around fifty minutes in a 160 °C (320 °F) oven. After it has been cooked, the top of the cake is golden and the middle wobbles slightly.
Molten chocolate cake or runny core cake, is a French dessert that consists of a chocolate cake with a liquid chocolate core. It is named for that molten center, [1] and it is also known as mi-cuit au chocolat, chocolat coulant ("flowing"), [2] chocolate lava cake, or simply lava cake. [3]
A financier (French pronunciation: [fi.nɑ̃.sje]) (formerly known as a visitandine [clarification needed] (French pronunciation: [vi.zi.tɑ̃.din])) is a small French almond cake, flavoured with beurre noisette, usually baked in a small mold.
' small cake '; plural: petits gâteaux) is a French chocolate dessert. In French-speaking countries a dessert of a petit gâteau with chocolate is referred to as fondant. [1] In the United States, a dessert by the name petit gâteau has been popularized by some New York City restaurants since the 1990s.