Misfortunes in Baking Trivia Quiz

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Eclairs are a common French pastry made from choux dough, which is delicate and airy, and filled with a custard before being topped with chocolate and often a sugar flower.

A napoleon or a mille-feuille is a layered French pastry made from puff pastry dough and pastry cream. A croquembouche is a stacked and decorative display of cream puffs. Croquembouches are notoriously difficult to create since the cream puffs are often difficult to stack. A king cake is typically served around Christmastime or Mardi Gras and is a large cake with a plastic Baby Jesus hidden somewhere within the cake. According to tradition, whoever finds the Baby Jesus has to buy the following year's cake. Palmiers are a type of pastry made from puff pastry dough. They are also called elephant's ears, pig's ears and palm leaves because of their shape.

Cannoli are Italian pastries made from a shell of fried pastry dough and filled with a ricotta-based cream that also contains chocolate chips or chopped dried fruit. Boston cream donuts are based on Boston Cream pie. They are filled with pastry cream and topped with a chocolate icing. A Battenberg cake is a British sponge cake filled with jam and covered in marzipan. The inside looks like a checkerboard with yellow and pink squares. Black forest cake is a German cake filled with Black Forest cherries, cherry kirsch liquor and chocolate.

A pavlova is meringue dessert often topped with fruit. The outside is hard and crunchy, but the inside is light and fluffy. Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made from coffee-soaked ladyfinger cookies, mascarpone cheese, egg yolks and cocoa powder. Tres leches cake is a Latin American cake made from three milks: whole milk, evaporated milk and condensed milk to make the cake rich in flavor. Pizzelle are thin, waffle-like cookies from Italy that are flavored in many different ways with anise and vanilla being the most common.