Mille-feuille
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A mille-feuille, also known as Napoleon in Russia and other post-Soviet states, as well as in North America, vanilla slice and custard slice in the United Kingdom, as well as Australia and New Zealand
A portion of a French mille-feuille
Homemade mille-feuille with fresh strawberries
A mille-feuille pastry with comb icing
A mille-feuille pastry (Japan)
Marie-Antoine Carême
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Marie-Antoine Carême, also known as Antonin Carême, was a French chef and author who specialised in grande cuisine for the elite society.
Mille-feuille
…Australia and New Zealand, 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…
"Promenade de la galerie du Palais-Royal", 1798
"Pavillon athénien" from Carême's Le Pâtissier pittoresque, 1815