Sentence examples for french cake from inspiring English sources

The old cafe Confeitaria Nacional (near Rossio square) introduced this French cake to Lisbon in the 19th century, and now it's baked all over the country.

As an finale, I had clafoutis, a country French cake tart layered with fruit, in this case cherries with a sprinkling of almonds.

A crusty, warm apple torte, escorted by a puff of raisins and whipped cream, was just fine but a gateau Saint Honore bore little resemblance to the traditional towering French cake.

Trained chef Rachel cleverly combines salty Sainte Maure goat's cheese, sweet pistachios and juicy prunes to make a distinctive French cake that's ideal for a picnic.

Here, an object is made by stacking the material layer by layer to obtain what in the cross section would look like the French cake millefeuille, or baklava from a Middle Eastern bakery.

There's a reason Marcel Proust wrote a seven-volume novel about the remembrance of things past: you may be nailing it today, but then you'll put a French cake in some tea and suddenly find yourself hurtling back into a time you thought long gone.

These small French cakes, made with almond flour and egg whites, are light but beautifully chewy and moist.

When that frenzy eases, they start turning out galettes des rois, the classic French cakes for Three Kings Day (a k a Epiphany), marking the presentation of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus.

Today it was those buttery-sweet French cakes known as madeleines.

Frangipani, for example, is a creamed almond butter, used as a filling in many French cakes.

There's also Petit Four, though these bite-sized French cakes actually served as the internal code name for Android 1.1.