Religieuse

Religieuse is a French pastry made of one small choux pastry case stacked on top of a second larger one, both filled with crème pâtissière which is commonly flavoured with either chocolate or mocha.[1] Each case is topped with a ganache of the same flavour as the filling, then attached to each other using piped buttercream icing.

This article is about the pastry. For other uses, see La Religieuse (disambiguation).
Religieuse
Religieuses au chocolat
Religieuses au chocolat
CourseDessert
Place of originFrance
Main ingredientsFlour and crème pâtissière

The pastry, whose name means "nun", is supposed to represent the papal mitre. Religieuse itself was supposedly conceived in the mid-nineteenth century, but the first version of the batter was invented in 1540 by Popelini, the Florentine chef of the Florentine queen of France, Catherine de' Medici. After subsequent iterations, the batter finally took its current form in the early 19th century in the kitchens of Marie-Antoine Carême, "The King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings".[2] Religieuse is a type of éclair.[3]

See also

References
  1. "une religieuse, un éclair". Pretty Tasty Cakes. 2008-08-31. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
  2. je parle américain, the online diary of an American in Paris (2011-07-25). "La Religieuse — "The Nun" « je parle américain". Jeparleamericain.com. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
  3. Monday (2010-03-08). "Seeking Sweetness in Everyday Life - CakeSpy - Ultra Violet: The Blackcurrant Violet Religieuse from Laduree, Paris". CakeSpy. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
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