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French for cake, but said with enough flair to double the calories.
means A rich, elaborate cake — typically French or French-style — layered or decorated with cream, fruit, or icing.
from From French gâteau, meaning cake, descended from Old French gastel or guastel. The deeper root is uncertain, but it's often traced to a Frankish (Germanic) source — a cousin of words for food or fare — rather than to Latin. The circumflex in gâteau marks an 's' that fell out over the centuries, the ghost of that older gastel still haunting the spelling.
- origin
- From Old French 'gastel,' meaning a fancy baked treat
- opera cake
- Gateau opera stacks six thin layers of almond and coffee
- croquembouche
- A gateau tower of cream puffs glued with spun sugar
- versus cake
- Same thing, but the French word charges more
- black forest
- Gateau soaked in kirsch, a legally boozy dessert
black forest gateau — german dessert with cherries, chocolate, and whipped cream, originated in the black forest region of baden-württemberg
saint honore gateau — french pastry cake with choux buns and caramel, named after saint honoré, the patron saint of paris bakers
gateau paris brest — french choux pastry ring with praline cream, created in 1910 for the paris-brest-paris cycling race