Mille-feuille

Mille-feuille, meaning thousand sheets in French, is a French pastry of alternating layers of puff pastry and pastry cream, traditionally three pastry layers and two cream layers. Its modern form owes much to refinements by the French chef Marie-Antoine Careme. Traditional puff pastry folded six times yields 729 layers, and some modern recipes push this as high as 2,048 layers. The top layer is finished in various ways, dusted with icing sugar, cocoa or sliced almonds, topped with whipped cream, or glazed with marbled chocolate stripes; fruit fillings such as strawberry or raspberry are also common. The pastry is called Napoleon in Russia and other post-Soviet states as well as in North America, and vanilla slice or custard slice in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/