🍰 Mille‑feuille
Mille-feuille (French for “a thousand layers”) is a classic French pastry made with thin layers of puff pastry and creamy filling. It is also commonly called the Napoleon pastry.
🥐 What It’s Made Of
Traditional mille-feuille has three layers of Puff Pastry filled with Pastry Cream and topped with Powdered Sugar or icing.
Typical layers:
- Crispy puff pastry
- Vanilla pastry cream
- Puff pastry
- More cream
- Top puff pastry with icing or sugar
👩🍳 Simple Homemade Version
Ingredients
- 1 sheet puff pastry
- 2 cups vanilla pastry cream or custard
- Powdered sugar for topping
Steps
- Bake puff pastry at 200 °C (400 °F) until golden and crisp.
- Let it cool and cut into 3 equal rectangles.
- Spread pastry cream on the first layer.
- Place the second pastry layer and add more cream.
- Add the final pastry layer and sprinkle powdered sugar.
🍓 Popular Variations
- With Strawberries or raspberries
- Chocolate cream filling
- Caramel or coffee flavored cream
🌍 Origin
Mille-feuille is a famous dessert from France and is served in bakeries around the world.
✅ If you want, I can also show you:
- The secret to perfectly crispy puff pastry layers
- A 10-minute lazy mille-feuille dessert
- Why it’s called “a thousand layers” 🍰
