Name: Mille-Feuille (Napoleon Pastry)
Prep time: 105 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 300 min
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 1 lb. homemade rough puff pastry or store-bought frozen & thawed puff pastry (2 sheets); all-purpose flour as needed to roll dough; 4 large egg yolks, cold or room temperature; 3 Tablespoons (23g) cornstarch; 2 cups (480ml) whole milk (do not use low-fat or nondairy); 1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar; 1 Tablespoon (14g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; seeds scraped from 1/2 vanilla bean (or extra 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract); small pinch salt; 1/2 cup (120ml) heavy cream or heavy whipping cream, cold; 1 cup (120g) confectioners’ sugar, sifted; 1.5 Tablespoons milk (dairy or nondairy); 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 2 ounces (57g) semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

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Mille-Feuille (Napoleon Pastry)

Nutrition Facts

Per serving · recipe makes 10 · 5h total

Servings

Calories

24% of a 2,000 cal day

485KCAL

Protein

7g14% DV

% DAILY VALUE

Total Fat28g

36%

Saturated10g

51%

Unsaturated18g

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Total Carbs53g

19%

Fiber1g

Total Sugars28g

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incl. Added Sugars25g

50%

Starch24g

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Sodium178mg

% Daily Value is based on a 2,000 calorie day.

A classic French pastry of crispy puff pastry layers with vanilla pastry cream and chocolate icing. Complex and elegant, best reserved for special occasions.

Ingredients

10 SERVINGS

1 lbhomemade rough puff pastry — or store-bought frozen and thawed puff pastry
all-purpose flour — as needed
4large egg yolks
23 gcornstarch — 3 tbsp
2 cupswhole milk — 480 ml
100 ggranulated sugar — ½ cup
14 gunsalted butter — softened, 1 tbsp
1 tsppure vanilla extract
½1/2 vanilla bean — seeds, or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
salt — small
½ cupheavy cream — cold, 120 ml, or heavy whipping cream
120 gconfectioners’ sugar — sifted, 1 cup
1½ tbspdairy milk — or nondairy milk
½ tsppure vanilla extract
57 gsemi-sweet chocolate — coarsely chopped, 2 oz

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Nutrition uses 10 ordinary servings for this batch; the source listed 5.

Method

5h total

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