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Galette

A galette is a round, flat cake made from flaky pastry, yeast dough, or unleavened dough. It is the traditional cake made for Twelfth Night celebrations in France. The term is also used for a variety of savory and sweet tarts.

Gaufrettes

These thin, sweet, fan-shaped wafers are often served with desserts like puddings and ice creams. Sometimes their surface is waffled, and sometimes they're folded to form an ice cream cone. Gaufrettes made from potatoes (gaufrettes pommes de terre) are latticed crisps, the originals of our ridged potato chips.

Tuile

A tuile, the word for "tile" in French, is a thin cookie that is rounded while hot (by being placed over a curved object, like a cup or rolling pin, or by being baked in a tuile mold) so that, when cooled and hardened, it looks like a curved roof tile. A traditional tuile is made from crushed almonds.

Vol-au-Vent

This puff pastry is shaped like a pot with a lid. It can be small or large and is traditionally filled with a cream-sauce mixture and chicken, fish, meat or vegetables. Vol-au-vent means "flying in the wind," and is meant to describe the lightness of this pastry pot.