Product Stability :: Sponge Cake Napoleon
Photo: American Egg BoardClassically, a Napoleon—as it’s known in the United States—is alternating layers of crispy puff pastry and egg-rich pastry cream finished with fondant icing and chocolate lace decoration. In France, it’s known as mille-feuille, and in Italy is dubbed mille foglie. Our Napoleon uses alternating layers of sponge cake and pastry cream, and the manufacturable version is freeze/thaw-stable with comparable culinary integrity to fresh.The recipe calls for vanilla pastry cream. The big difference in our gold-standard pastry cream recipe compared to the traditional crème anglaise is addition of corn starch, which gave it a pudding-like viscosity and texture.The ...
