dacquoise

A dessert cake made with layers of almond and hazelnut meringue and whipped cream or buttercream, typically served chilled with fruit.

Noun

  1. A dessert cake made with layers of almond and hazelnut meringue and whipped cream or buttercream, typically served chilled with fruit.
    • Call Natalie at Glorious Foods and tell her no for the 40th time. No! I don't want dacquoise. I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote. - 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken...

Origin

From French dacquoise, feminine of dacquois (“from the French town of Dax”), the origin of the dessert.

Forms

dacquoises