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Often covered with nuts, such as almonds and peanuts, a top layer of almond flavored icing, and a half glacé cherry. Banana cream pie: United States: Sweet A cream pie made with a rich custard made from milk, cream, flour, and eggs and combined with sliced bananas in a pastry or graham crumb crust. It is often made with a whipped cream topping.
An assortment of cakes and pastries in a pâtisserie. The following is a list of pastries, which are small buns made using a stiff dough enriched with fat.Some dishes, such as pies, are made of a pastry casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients.
Mille-feuille. 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. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême.
Banoffee pie is a British dessert pie made from bananas, whipped cream, and a thick caramel sauce (made from boiled condensed milk, or milk jam), combined either on a buttery biscuit base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. [1] Some versions of the recipe include chocolate, coffee, or both. The dessert’s name, sometimes spelled ...
A pie chart (or a circle chart) is a circular statistical graphic which is divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each slice (and consequently its central angle and area) is proportional to the quantity it represents. While it is named for its resemblance to a pie which has been sliced, there ...
Amandine. Romania. A chocolate layered cake filled with chocolate, caramel and fondant cream. Amygdalopita. Greece. An almond cake made with ground almonds, flour, butter, egg and pastry cream. Angel cake. United Kingdom [ 1 ] A type of layered sponge cake, often garnished with cream and food coloring.
Pastry refers to a variety of doughs (often enriched with fat or eggs), as well as the sweet and savoury baked goods made from them. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] These goods are often called pastries as a synecdoche, and the dough may be accordingly called pastry dough for clarity. [ 4 ] Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers' confectionery.
Baked Alaska. Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, omelette norvégienne, omelette surprise, or omelette sibérienne depending on the country, is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with ...