mille-feuille
Sign in to saveA ' (; ), also known by the names Napoleon in North America and Post-Soviet countries, vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice', is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Mille-feuille
- Food.image
- Mille-feuille français 1.jpg
- Food.caption
- A portion of a French
- Food.alternate_name
- , vanilla slice or custard slice, Napoleon, Napoleon pastry
- Food.country
- France
- Food.course
- Dessert
- Food.type
- Pastry, cake
- Food.main_ingredient
- Puff pastry, custard, powdered sugar
- Food.variations
- Frangipane, whipped cream
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A ' (; ), also known by the names Napoleon in North America and Post-Soviet countries, vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice', is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême.
Traditionally, a is made up of three layers of puff pastry (), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (). The top pastry layer is finished in various ways: sometimes it is topped with whipped cream, or it may be dusted with icing sugar, cocoa, pastry crumbs, or sliced almonds. It may also be glazed with icing or fondant alone, or in alternating white (icing) and brown (chocolate) or other colored icing stripes, and combed to create a marbled effect.