Italy's Montblanc cake is a cup-shaped cake made of sponge cake and meringue pie, which is also decorated with fine flour or conical chestnut cream and fine sugar representing snow.
Mont Blanc cake in France is similar to that in Italy, the only difference is chestnut cream on the top of the cake. There is no uniform standard for the shape, size, embryo type and decorative cream appearance of Montblanc cake. The only similarity is that there must be chestnut cream (or other materials with similar taste) in the material.
France has always been famous for its romantic enthusiasm. The purple Provence and the quietly flowing Seine River tell one romantic story after another, and another representative symbol is French dessert.
Dessert represents sweetness and love, which coincides with the romance in French nature. So the French have a special preference for desserts. They are obsessed with studying various desserts and adding romantic elements to them. A dazzling array of French desserts shines with exquisite and attractive brilliance, which makes people yearn for it.
In this era of consumer goods, they ignore the public and are still slow, and have almost strict requirements for every step of dessert from material selection to processing.
As early as Louis XIV, dessert was a masterpiece on the table. The French pursue exquisite life and treat food with exquisite attitude. Louis XIV, in particular, started the heyday of French feudal history, and since then, it has set off a whirlwind of pursuing exquisite luxury in France, which has an extremely important influence on France in the future. Louis XIV's attitude towards desserts was almost harsh, demanding that desserts reach a new level.
They can make cocoa powder for several weeks, just to select full and traceless cocoa beans from the flowers of the cocoa tree; In order to find a pure wild high-quality lavender garden, it takes several months to extract the essence; It will take years just to wait for a new formula to mature.
The chestnut cake of Mont Blanc originated in Sava, France and Piedmont, Italy, which are adjacent to the border. The name comes from Mont Blanc in the Alps and is similar to it. The cake in Mont Blanc, France is basically the same as that in Italy, but the difference lies in the chestnut cream at the top.
The cafe that added it to the main pastry ranks was the Paris cafe "Angelina" founded in 1907.
Italy's Montblanc cake is a cup-shaped cake made of sponge cake and meringue pie, which is also decorated with fine flour or conical chestnut cream and fine sugar representing snow.