Napoleons

Name: Napoleons
Yield: Makes 8 Napoleons
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups (6 1/4 ounces), unbleached all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon, sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks), cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch cubes; 3 tablespoons, ice water; 1 teaspoon, juice from 1 lemon; 1 recipe, Pastry Cream for Éclairs or Napoleons; 2 tablespoons, half-and-half; 1 ounce, bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped fine; 3/4 cup (3 ounces), confectioners' sugar, sifted; 1 1/2 teaspoons, half-and-half; 1/4 cup (1 ounce), confectioners' sugar, sifted; 1/8 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our Napoleons recipe, we worked on a scaled-down version of our Quick Puff Pastry recipe. Then we figured out how to achieve level puff pastry layers for our Napoleons recipe, so they could be spread with pastry cream and stacked. We fo...

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