Chocolate Triangles

Chocolate Triangles, or Chocolate Points, as they are also known, are a must for inclusion in any well-rounded selection of French pastries. Not only does their radical change of layer direction make them eye-catching, the shape is also interesting, and they add height to the display. The size of the finished triangles is really an optical illusion, as I demonstrate to my students. I leave one strip of cake as it appears at the end of Step 3 (before cutting it in half diagonally) and finish