Napoleon

Napoleon is a dessert that most people love once they've had it. It is also known as Mille feuille which translates into "a thousand leaves". Now to make this pastry, you start off by making a simple puff pastry. This is good for using up your extra dough and scraps. You make a sheet of it and then proceed to cut it into 3 equal parts. Once you have this you spoon a layer of diplomat cream, which is equal parts of pastry cream and whipped cream, on top of one layer of the puff pastry. Then you repeat this so you have two layers of puff pastry and two layers of cream. Keep the top layer of puff pastry off so you can put fondant on it. This kind of fondant is a glaze and is made of mostly sugar and water. When working with this fondant you have to move fast because it will set very quickly. So you take your top layer of puff pastry and pour some fondant over it and spread it out with a spatula so that it is smooth. Then to decorate your napoleons you can pipe straight lines of chocolate all the way across the pastry. Then by taking a skewer just run it through the chocolate going across in the opposite direction. This just makes it look
more presentable. Let this set for a few minutes just so it can harden and then place it on top of the other layers. Then you can cut out your different pieces. And there you have your napoleons.