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The Napoleon is a pastry made of many layers of puff pastry with filling alternating the layers. It can be eaten as a dessert, or even as a decadent meal. Pastry the name given to various kinds of dough made from ingredients such as flour, butter and eggs, that are rolled out thinly and used as the base for baked goods. ... In baking, a puff pastry (pate feuilleté) is a light, flaky pastry made from dough of the same name. ... WINKY DESSERTS!!!!!! ...

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The Napoleon is named for Emperor Napoleon I of France. An unconfirmed story says that the King of Denmark's pastry chef created it when the emperor Napoleon I visited. He liked it so much that he had his own chefs making it. Hence the name. Napoleon I of France, by Jacques-Louis David Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution, and the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, then as Emperor of...


As a French pastry it is called mille-feuilles, or thousand leaves, and it is usually filled with whipped cream, pastry cream (flavored custard), and fruit preserves - most often raspberry jam. The topping may be simply powdered sugar, or a layer of fondant, often with strings of chocolate drawn into a chevron design. This article is about cream, the food item. ... Custard is a sweet dessert made from a combination of milk or cream, egg yolks, corn starch, sugar and flavourings such as vanilla. ... For other meanings of the word jam, see Jam (disambiguation) Jam from berries Jam is a type of fruit preserve. ... Binomial name Rubus idaeus L. The Raspberry or Red Raspberry, (Rubus idaeus) is a plant that produces a tart, sweet, red composite fruit (not a true berry) in late summer or early autumn. ... Jam from berries Jam is a type of fruit preserve made by boiling fruit with sugar to make an unfiltered jelly. ...


In Italy, where the pastry is thought to have originated in Naples, it is called mille foglie (again, thousand leaves), and contains a similar layering like the mille-feuilles of cream, custard, and fruit preserves. A savory Italian version consists of puff pastry filled with spinach, cheese, or pesto among other things. Binomial name Spinacia oleracea L. Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to central and southwestern Asia. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of cows, goats, sheep, or other mammals. ... Pesto is an Italian sauce, generally attributed to the Liguria region of Northern Italy, specifically the city of Genoa (pesto alla Genovese). ...


Australia calls its own version of the Napoleon vanilla slice. Vanilla slice is a type of cake. ...


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The Mediadrome - Recipes: Strawberry Napoleon with Lemon Curd and Cream (400 words)
I use a fluted pastry cutter to trim the edges of the dough and then cut each "third" in half to make a rectangular shape.
Bake the puff pastry in the oven until it has risen and is golden brown, about 20 minutes.
Spoon some of the lemon curd on the bottom pastry shell, add some of the sliced strawberries then placed the top half of the pastry shell on top of the strawberries.
Napoleon (pastry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (353 words)
The Napoleon is a pastry made of many layers of puff pastry with filling alternating the layers.
As a French pastry it is called mille-feuilles, or thousand leaves, and it is usually filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, and fruit preserves - most often raspberry jam.
The most common explanation of the name 'Napoleon' is that it is from napolitain, the French adjective for the Italian town of Naples, but altered by association with the name of Emperor Napoleon I of France.
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