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A religieuse () is a French pastry made of a small choux pastry case stacked on top of a larger one, both filled with , commonly flavoured with chocolate or mocha. Each case is topped with a ganache of the same flavour as the filling, then attached to each other using piped buttercream icing. It is a type of éclair.

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Religieuse
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File:Religieuses au chocolat.jpg
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Religieuses au chocolat
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Religieuses au chocolat
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France
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Dessert
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Flour and crème pâtissière

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A religieuse () is a French pastry made of a small choux pastry case stacked on top of a larger one, both filled with , commonly flavoured with chocolate or mocha. Each case is topped with a ganache of the same flavour as the filling, then attached to each other using piped buttercream icing. It is a type of éclair.

The pastry, whose name means "nun", is supposed to represent the papal mitre. The religieuse was supposedly conceived in the mid-nineteenth century; choux pastry was invented in the 16th century.

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