Marquise Alice

Name: Marquise Alice (Checkerboard Bavarois Cake)
Yield: Serves 8.
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar; 1 cup strawberry jelly (or other red jelly); Recipe of ladyfingers; 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier; ¼ cup mashed praline (may be omitted); Bavarois à la Crème; 1½ cups whipping cream; Kirsch

Checkerboard Bavarois Cake

Preparation info

Serves
8
.

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

This aristocratic Bavarois lady is a “square” of the dessert world. Her checkerboard dress is child’s play to create.

Ingredients

Recipe of ladyfingers
¼ cup mashed praline (may be omitted)
Bavarois à la Crème
2 tabl

Cake
Dessert

Method

Make ladyfingers from the Biscuit Roulé (. Make praline; cool and crush fine. Make Bavarois, but flavor with Grand Marnier. Add whipped cream from Bavarois recipe when starting to set. When ladyfingers are cool, turn about 12 upside down on a plate.