The Paris-Brest

The Paris-Brest

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This cake is a choux pastry ring filled with praline cream. According to legend, this cake was created at the end of the 19th century, the same year as the first Paris to Brest cycling race. The circular shape of the was supposed to represent a bicycle wheel.

 
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