Puits d'amour facts for kids
Puits d'amour
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| Type | Pastry |
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| Place of origin | France |
| Region or state | Paris |
| Created by | Vincent De La Chapelle |
| Main ingredients | Puff pastry, butter, confectioners' sugar, jam or jelly |
| Variations | Pastry cream stuffing |
The Puits d'amour is a yummy French pastry. It has a special hollow space in the middle. This space is often filled with sweet redcurrant jelly or raspberry jam. Sometimes, it's filled with creamy vanilla pastry cream instead. The top of this treat is usually sprinkled with confectioners' sugar or covered in shiny caramel.
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What Does "Puits d'amour" Mean?
The name Puits d'amour comes from French. It means 'well of love'.
The History of Puits d'amour Pastry
This tasty pastry has a long history. The first time a recipe for Puits d'amour appeared was in 1735. It was in a cookbook called Le cuisinier moderne. This book was written by a chef named Vincent De La Chapelle.
Original Recipes
Chef La Chapelle shared two recipes for this dessert.
- One was for a large gâteau de puits d’amour. This was a big puff pastry shell. It looked like a bucket from a well, complete with a pastry handle. It was filled with redcurrant jelly.
- The other recipe was for petits puits d’amour. These were smaller, bite-sized versions of the cake.
A New Filling
Later, a chef named Nicolas Stohrer changed the recipe. He was a pastry chef for the Polish king Stanislas. Instead of fruit jam, he filled the Puits d'amour with vanilla pastry cream. He also covered the top with a thick layer of caramel.
How Puits d'amour is Made
Making a Puits d'amour is a bit like building a tiny tower.
- First, layers of puff pastry rings are stacked up. They are placed on top of a round pastry base.
- A little egg yolk can be used to help the dough rings stick together.
- The pastry "wells" are then baked. They become puffed up and golden brown.
- After they cool down, they are ready to be filled. Sweet raspberry jam or redcurrant jelly is carefully spooned into the hollow center.
- Sometimes, powdered sugar is sprinkled on top.
Another Way to Make It
In a different version, the top of the pastry is covered with shiny caramel icing. For this version, creamy pastry cream is used as the filling instead of jam.
