dacquoise

[da-kwaz]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of dacquoise¹

< French, feminine of dacquois pertaining to Dax

Example Sentences

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

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

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Over the years, she’s arrived at my door with all manner of elaborate confections — a Sacher torte, a chocolate-hazelnut cake, assortments of Viennese Christmas cookies, and a billowing almond dacquoise filled with mocha buttercream, each carefully made in the kitchen of her nearby brownstone.

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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.

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Le Bec Fin, Le Cirque, Lutèce, Le Bernardin, the pristine white traiteur in SoHo where the woman in a white blouse and black pencil skirt served tiny, perfectly roasted chickens for a splurge, the elaborate dacquoise with cognac buttercream I was asked to develop for a cookbook, the chic coq au vin we labored over for French Club — this was French cuisine!

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