Lady M’s Tiramisu Mille Crepes Cake & All The Cake Holidays
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We’re putting it out there—this is what we want for Valentine’s Day instead of chocolate: Lady M’s limited edition Tiramisù Mille Crêpes Cake. Yes, we love chocolate, but we love Lady M’s Mille Crêpes Cakes even more. With 20 crêpes filled with luxurious crème pâte à bombe††, and a center layer of espresso sponge cake, it’s topped with petals of whipped mascarpone and a dusting of premium cocoa powder. The cake captures the true flavors of a classic tiramisu pudding†, and is a limited edition. Lady M has both year-round flavors and seasonal flavors on offer. There’s the original, Signature, plus others from Chocolate, Coffee, Green Tea, Marron (Chestnut), and Strawberry Matcha. The limited edition and seasonal flavors, come and go quickly, so we always keep an eye out. These are cakes for the connoisseur: delicate, elegant, special. They’re not inexpensive, because they’re incredibly labor intensive. The Milles Crêpes Cake, invented by a Japanese pastry chef trained in classic French technique, is not baked. It’s composed of layers of crêpes made on the stovetop. More than 20 cream-filled layers—not quite 1,000, which is mille in French—go into each cake. The layers are filled with pastry cream (chocolate, matcha, passionfruit, pistachio vanilla, etc.). If you want to try your hand at layering flavored pastry creams between 20 evenly-made crêpes, here’s a recipe. You can find many more recipes online. But it’s much faster to… > Head to LadyM.com. There are different types of many-layered cakes, including: > The history of Mille Crêpes Cake. > The different types of cakes. > National Tiramisù Day is March 21. > National Crêpe Day is February 2. > National Bavarian Crêpes Day is March 22. > See all the cake holidays, below. There are almost 60—a lot to celebrate! January Yes, a donut is a pastry a sweet, fried dough pastry of leavened dough that’s usually ring-shaped, either with a hole in the center or filled without the hole. The dough can be enriched with eggs or fat. And yes, beyond breakfast and snacks, they can be eaten for dessert. We serve them à la mode. |
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________________ *Ganache vs. frosting: While the terms are sometimes used interchangeably (and incorrectly), ganache is a chocolate icing. Icing is typically thinner, denser, and glossier, made primarily from just melted chocolate and cream. It’s often poured or drizzled over a cake or used for decorative details. Frosting, on the other hand, is generally thicker and fluffier than icing, a thick spreadable layer used to cover the entire surface of a cake. It can be any flavor. †Tiramisù is not a cake, although it is sometimes called one. It is more accurately a mascarpone pudding, layered with ladyfingers that are soaked in coffee or coffee liqueur. Unlike a cake, tiramisù is not baked. ††Pâte à bombe is a light and creamy egg foam used as a base in desserts such as mousses, tiramisù, and parfaits. Egg whites are whipped until light and frothy, then hot sugar syrup is slowly poured in. Pâte à bombe is similar to Italian meringue, but uses egg yolks instead of egg whites. The name literally translates to “bombe dough” or “bombe mixture,” referring to a frozen French dessert made of ice cream or sorbet in a spherical mold. The spherical shape resembles a cannonball—well, half a cannonball. ‡Unusual cake holidays include: > Pizza Cake Day. Pizza cake was invented in 2014 by Boston Pizza, a Canadian-based pizza chain, as part of a promotion called Pizza Game Changers. It uses pizza ingredients in the form of a layer cake. Here’s more about it. > Pączki Day. Pączki are Polish doughnuts that are deep-fried and filled with jam or cream. They are often covered with powdered sugar or icing. The holiday originated in Poland in the Middle Ages as a way to use up rich ingredients before Lent. The donuts are commonly eaten on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Fasnacht Day is the German equivalent. > Poet in a Cupcake Day celebrates the end of Take Your Poet to School Week, for students in grades K-12. The initiative was created to introduce students to different poets and their works, encouraging them to engage with poetry. Each day of the week has a designated theme and activities. Here’s more about it. ‡‡Cupcake confusion: You’ll come across two dates for National Lemon Cupcake Day: November 15 and December 15. December 15 is also National Cupcake Day. What’s up? This type of inconsistency is common with unofficial (non-government-decreed) holidays, as there’s no central authority that officially designates these commemorative events. They were created by industry groups, public relations firms, social media influencers, or just plain enthusiasts. Any government leader (national, state, city, county) who oversees legislation can proclaim an “official” commemorative holiday (here’s more about it). In pre-Internet days, a book called Chase’s Calendar of Events was considered the most comprehensive and authoritative reference available on such special events. Even then, there were holiday duplicates and triplicates. A hypothetical example: Congress could approve National Chocolate Cookie Day due to a petition by the leading brand of chocolate chips. But the State of Massachusetts could proclaim its own National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, to honor the Toll House Restaurant where it was invented. Likewise the City of Palo Alto, home of the first Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery, could choose to commemorate her chocolate chip cookies.
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