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The pastry, round, i.e. wheel-shaped, was created in 1910 by Louis Durand, pâtissier of Maisons-Laffitte, at the request of Pierre Giffard, to commemorate the 1,200 km (750 mi) Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race he had initiated in 1891. [1]
An assortment of petit fours, which are small confectioneries.Some petit fours are also savory. Religieuse is made of two choux pastry cases filled with crème pâtissière, [5] covered in a ganache of the same flavor as the filling, and then joined/decorated with piped whipped cream.
A cream puff with a chocolate glaze sometimes topped with nuts. Lady's navel: Sweet Turkey Made from balls of choux pastry which are given a dimple, deep-fried and then soaked in syrup. Moorkop: Sweet Netherlands A type of Dutch profiterole. Nun's puffs: Sweet France The choux is pan-fried before baking. Paris-Brest: Sweet France
Made of choux pastry and a praline flavoured cream. It was created in 1891 to commemorate the Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race. [71] Its circular shape is representative of a wheel. It became popular with riders on the Paris–Brest cycle race, partly because of its energy-giving high calorific value, and is now found in pâtisseries all over ...
The full term is commonly said to be a corruption of French pâte à chaud (lit. ' hot pastry/dough ').The term "choux" has two meanings in the early literature. One is a kind of cheese puff, first documented in the 13th century; the other corresponds to the modern choux pastry and is documented in English, German, and French cookbooks in the 16th century.
Displayed in a room overlooking the Seine that was filled with the smell of warm butter and baked flour, an opéra pastry in the form of a diving platform perched in a shiny, blue pool was awarded ...
The St. Honoré cake, usually known by its French name gâteau St-Honoré, and also sometimes called St. Honoratus cake, [1] is a pastry dessert named for the French patron saint of bakers and pastry chefs, Saint Honoré or Honoratus (d. 600 AD), Bishop of Amiens. [2]
Gustave Garlin in Le Cuisinier moderne [13] (1887) mentions profiteroles filled with cream and glazed with chocolate or coffee, worked to be smooth and shiny. A widely-repeated legend claims that choux pastry, the key ingredient of profiteroles, was invented by the head chef to the court of Catherine de' Medici . [ 14 ]