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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.
The Troelfth Cake.French original. Black and white engraving The Troelfth Cake, German version, in color. The Troelfth Cake (also The Twelfth Cake, The Royal Cake, The Cake of Kings, from the French: Le gâteau des rois, Polish: Kołacz królewski, Placek królewski) is a 1773 French allegory and satire on the First Partition of Poland. [1]
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.
A Jésuite is a triangular, flaky pastry filled with frangipane cream and topped with sliced almonds and powdered sugar. [1] The pastry originated in France and the name refers to the triangular shape of a Jesuit's hat. [2] A similarly-named sweet pastry known in Portugal and Spain, the jesuíta, consists of puff pastry filled with custard. [3]
Galette des Rois – Kings' cake. Traditionally served between January 6th–12th. Traditionally served between January 6th–12th. A floating island is a dessert consisting of meringue floating on crème anglaise .
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]
A chocolate tart with frangipane filling as the middle layer. Frangipane – Almond custard; Friand – Small almond cake; Gâteau Basque – French pastry; Gugelhupf – German yeast cake; Galette de Rois – Type of cake associated with Epiphany—French puff pastry filled with frangipane; Jésuite – French pastry