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Northern French style galette des rois Southern French style gâteau des rois. There are two different versions of the French king cake: the galette and the gâteau. The galette des rois is a flaky puff pastry traditionally filled with frangipane. These days the filling may also be fruit, chocolate or cream-based fillings.
French galette des rois (kings' cake). Frangipane (/ ˈ f r æ n dʒ ɪ p æ n,-p eɪ n / FRAN-jih-pa(y)n) is a sweet almond-flavoured custard, typical in French pastry, used in a variety of ways, including cakes and such pastries as the Bakewell tart, conversation tart, Jésuite and pithivier. [1]
Galette (from the Norman word gale, meaning 'flat cake') is a term used in French cuisine to designate various types of flat round or freeform crusty cakes, [1] or, in the case of a Breton galette (French: Galette bretonne [galɛt bʁətɔn]; Breton: Krampouezhenn gwinizh du), a pancake made with buckwheat flour usually with a savoury filling.
Riz à l'impératrice – Rice pudding dish in French haute cuisine; Soufflé – Egg-based baked dish; Tarte conversation – French pastry; Tarte Tatin – Caramelised fruit tart; Teurgoule – Rice pudding from Normandy; Yule log – Traditional Christmas dessert; Galette des Rois – Kings' cake. Traditionally served between January 6th–12th.
It is similar to the galette des rois made for Epiphany made in the northern half of France although the pithivier is made all year round. [5] The filling of the pithivier is often a sweet cream of almonds and not frangipane as in the galette des rois, but savoury pies with vegetable, meat or cheese filling can also be called pithivier. [6]
The Moulin de la Galette (French pronunciation: [mulɛ̃ də la ɡalɛt]) is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities.
In the northern half of France and Belgium the cake is called a galette des Rois, and is a round, flat, and golden cake made with flake pastry and often filled with frangipane, fruit, or chocolate. In the south, in Provence, and in the south-west, a crown-shaped cake or brioche filled with fruit called a gâteau des Rois is eaten.
France 3 (French: [fʁɑ̃s tʁwɑ]) is a French free-to-air public television regional network part of the France Télévisions group.. It is made up of a network of regional television services providing daily news programming and around ten hours of entertainment and cultural programming produced for and about the regions each week (similar to ITV in the United Kingdom).