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 A portion of a French mille-feuille | |
| Alternative names | gâteau de mille-feuilles, vanilla slice or custard slice, Napoleon, Napoleon pastry |
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| Type | Pastry, cake |
| Course | Dessert |
| Place of origin | France |
| Created by | food |
| Main ingredients | Puff pastry, custard, powdered sugar |
| Variations | Frangipane, whipped cream |
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.
Traditionally, a mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (crème pâtissière). 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.[3]
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- ^ Healy, Bruce; Bugat, Paul (1984). Mastering the Art of French Pastry: An Illustrated Course. Woodbury, New York: Barron's. p. 180.
- ^ The Art of French Pastry: A Cookbook. Random House. 3 December 2013. ISBN 978-0307959362.
- ^ Healy & Bugat 1984, pp. 181–183.