Puff Pastry Cake with Lightened Pastry Cream Filling

Prince Albert

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Preparation info
  • One 10 inch round cake, about

    8 to 10

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

  • About

In the mid-1970s, when I worked summer seasons in the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, Prince Albert was a dessert we often prepared. I’m sure the dessert, named after the son of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, had been created in honor of his birth. A very simple version of a mille-feuille, it is made from three layers of puff pastry stacked with a pastry cream that has orange liqueur and whipped cream folded into it. The cream is drizzled