The design of this recipe is inspired by French pastry Millefeuille that consists of layers of thin puff pastry and cream. The traditional Mille Feuille cake has the basic flavors of vanilla and custard but the texture looks just so amazing. The exotic name Dusk and Dawn Gateau – Millefeuille for this exotic recipe was given by Gautam Mehra, my friend.
The traces of French pastry Mille Feuille were first found in François Pierre La Varenne's cookbook in 1651. The moment I saw this French pastry for the first time, I decided to bake it in my own oven. But I just cannot bake anything without giving it a healthy twist, certainly not my type.
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Eggless French Pastry Millefeuille
Unlike the traditional Mille Feuille recipe that uses all-purpose flour, I used whole wheat. That’s my way of making things healthier. This recipe is completely eggless, a perfect recipe for me.
I layered the eggless whole wheat orange Mille Feuille cake with dark chocolate ganache a match made in heaven. The health quotient of this French pastry millefeuille multiplied with healthy ingredients for garnishing.
Different color of different nuts and fruit made the final outcome fantastic.
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Chocolate Ganache
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Making Caramelized Orange
Making the Cake Sheet
Now we need to make the Cake Sheet. It is important that the cake sheet stays moist so I used oil in the recipe. But what about richness. So to richness and flavor to the recipe, I added butter.
In a large mixing bowl, take condensed milk. Add orange juice, butter, oil, and vanilla essence to it. Remember to whisk everything that blends all the ingredients together.
Using a sifter, sieve whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together. Mix dry ingredients with wet ingredients.
Add milk to the batter and bring it to smooth and pouring consistency. Now add vinegar to the recipe and keep it aside for 5 minutes.
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Meanwhile, keep the oven for preheating at 180 °C.
Now Line a baking tray (9” x 11”) with parchment paper. You may grease the tray with butter but for easy de-molding, I always prefer using butter paper or parchment paper.
Tip: Parchment paper helps to keep the shape of the cake completely intact.
Pour the batter into the tray and tap it on the counter. This ensures that there are no air bubbles left in the batter. Now bake this batter in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes.
Ensure that you are not over baking the cake otherwise, the cake will become dry. Once the cake is baked, take out the tray from the oven and de-mold it. Let the cake rest on a cooling rack for some time.
Designing and Plating
I decided to make an "S" and design it. You may draw any number or alphabet of your choice. Draw the number or alphabet on a butter paper and make cutouts.
Place the cut out on the baked cake sheet and cut two similar portions of cake from it. We will pipe chocolate ganache in between these two cake cutouts.
Fill chocolate ganache in a piping bag and pierce the tip. Place one cut out of the cake and pipe the chocolate ganache on it. Place the second layer of cake cutout on top covering the ganache. Using the piping bag again pipe the ganache on the second layer.
Decorate the cake top with glazed orange wedges, nuts, and fruits. You got to be creative in this to make it appealing to eyes.
And that is it. You just made an excellent version of a French pastry. This wonderful looking, lip-smacking dessert will make you a rock star of your get together. Be ready to rock now.
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Dusk and Dawn Gateau
Inspired by traditional Mille Feuille recipe, I have made this exotic French pastry millefeuille. The delicious Mille Feuille cake is an eggless orange sponge. I have used dark chocolate ganache and that makes this millefeuille more tempting. Get ready to rock your next get together.
Ingredients
For Cake Sheet
- 100 gm Whole Wheat Flour
- 80 ml Condensed Milk
- 120 ml Milk
- 20 ml Oil Flavorless
- 20 gm Butter
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 50 ml Orange Juice Fresh
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Vinegar
- 1/8 tsp Salt
For Chocolate Ganache
- 100 gm Dark Chocolate Lindt
- 60 gm Fresh Cream Amul
- 1 tbs Butter
For Garnishing
- 5 pcs Orange Slices
- 6 pcs Cashew Roasted
- 6 pcs Almonds Roasted
- 9 pcs Cranberry
- 4 pcs Kiwi Sliced and Dried
- 4 pcs Cherry Pitted
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon Powder
Hi Sonia , I made this for my granddaughter Sanjana for her birthday and this was the first time I ever made a cake which is a deviation from the usual shapes.Thank you for the recipe
Sounds so great Leila. Thanks for sharing.