dacquoise

American  

[da-kwaz] / daˈkwaz /

noun

1. a dessert consisting of baked layers of nut-flavored meringue with a cream filling, sometimes with the addition of fruit, served chilled.

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Etymology

Origin of dacquoise

< French, feminine of dacquois pertaining to Dax

Example Sentences

Her French studies are revealed in desserts like vacherin with white sesame dacquoise.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

I worked my way up to more elaborate confections, like dacquoise, a hazelnut meringue layered with buttercream frosting, and then to making savory dishes.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

The school’s culinary students — all immigrants — had been up all night making a couple-hundred little plates, each with a dainty pineapple dacquoise, for an annual luncheon.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2018

Since then, other confections have vied for my attention, most notably a fanciful little tower of cashew dacquoise sandwiched with buttercream and sweetened with guava.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2018

While the fashionable may have pigged out on dacquoise, white chocolate and tiramisu, what turned on many Americans was a popular perennial: ice cream.

From Time Magazine Archive