Quick Napoleon Dessert Recipes
Napoleons are a great classic French dessert. They are a puff pastry, with vanilla cream filling, and vanilla and chocolate icing, and sometimes powdered sugar. The pastry name in French means a thousand sheets or layers. It is a crisp, and very sweet dessert.
A traditional Napoleon is a French dessert made from layers of puff pastry spread with a vanilla pastry cream. The top of the rectangle or triangular shaped sweet is drizzled with chocolate and or dusted with powdered sugar. Historians say that the Napoleon was created by a Danish royal chef in honor of a visit by a French emperor. And that Emperor Bonaparte’s defeat at Waterloo was the result of an overindulgence of his now famous namesake pastry.
