From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Vanilla
slice) Jump to: navigation, search Mille-feuille 20100916.jpg
Alternative names Napoleon, gâteau de mille-feuilles, vanilla
slice or custard slice Type Pastry Place of origin France Main
ingredients Puff pastry, pastry cream, powdered sugar Cookbook:
Mille-feuille  Media: Mille-feuille  The mille-feuille (French
pronunciation: ​[mil fœj], "a thousand leaves"),[notes 1]
vanilla slice, custard slice, also known as the Napoleon, is a
French pastry whose exact origin is unknown. Its modern form was
influenced by improvements of Marie-Antoine Carême.    The exact
origin of the mille-feuille is unknown. François Pierre La
Varenne described a version in Le Cuisinier françois,
1651.[citation needed] It was later improved by Marie-Antoine
Carême. Carême, writing in the early 19th century, considered it
of "ancient origin". According to Alan Davidson in the Oxford
Companion to Food (p. 505), the invention of the form (but not
of the pastry itself) is usua