dacquoise
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun A cake made with layers of nut meringue and whipped cream or buttercream.
- noun One of the layers of meringue used in this cake.
Examples
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A meringue pastry with nuts is called a dacquoise.
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Anyway, today we made a pistachio dacquoise (remember that a dacquoise is a meringue--whipped egg whites--with sugar and nut flour(s) folded into it), an apricot-passion-fruit gelee, some apricot glaze, two sablee dough shells (we didn't get to do those, as the only sablee dough left was too soft to work with, so we'll do it tomorrow), and each of us made an inverted puff pastry recipe and put four turns in the dough.
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Chocolate Dacquoise Cake: Rather than flour, a dacquoise cake uses almond flour -- finely ground almonds -- folded into whipped meringue and then baked.
Note
The word 'dacquoise' comes from French, from the feminine of dacquois, meaning 'of Dax', a town of southwest France.
