What is the difference between a Napoleon cake and a Millefoglie cake?
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Is millefeuille French or Italian?
Sebastiaan Spies
2025-11-07 18:39:18
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Mille-feuille is French.
Millefoglie is Italian.
Mille-feuille is a refined individual dessert best enjoyed with a coffee and a quiet moment.
Millefoglie, on the other hand, was made for celebration.
Its dramatic assembly, flexibility in flavour, and romantic Italian heritage make it a perfect fit for weddings and large gatherings.
Where mille-feuille is best served by the slice, millefoglie can be scaled to feed 30 to 150+ guests, making it ideal as a wedding cake.
Luna Zowran von Ranzow
2025-10-25 12:24:21
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Mille-Feuille seems to translate to one thousand leaves, sheets or layers and refers to the puff pastry that is used in 3 layers of this pastry.
The most common history sites seem to accept is that the mille-feuille hails out of France due to a 1651 chef François Pierre de la Varenne publishing a recipe in Le Cuisinier François.
However, the Roman Empire had a tradition of pastries that also featured alternating layers of pastry sheets and cream, and this is known to be especially true in Naples.
Italy also has a similar dessert called sfogliatelle that layers pastry and creamy fillings which also supports the idea of mille-feuille predating France.
If you visit Italy, you might order a mille foglie and it’ll sport a sponge cake layer or possibly even savory versions with pesto, cheese, and spinach.
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