A charlotte is a type of dessert or trifle that can be served hot or cold. It is also referred to as an "icebox cake". Bread,sponge cake or biscuits/cookies are used to line a mold,which is then filled with a fruit puree or custard. It can also be made using layers of breadcrumbs
In 1815, Marie-Antoine Carême claims to have thought of charlotte à la parisienne "pendant mon établissement", presumably in 1803, when he opened his own pastry shop.
The earliest known English recipe is from the 1808 London edition of Maria Rundell's New System of Domestic Cookery
In Carême's 1815 Le Pâtissier royal parisien, he mentions many varieties of charlotte: à la parisienne, à la française, à l'italienne, aux macarons dávelines, aux gaufres aux pistaches, de pommes, de pomme d'api, d'abricots, de pêches, de pommes glacée aux abricots,
de pommes au beurre, parisienne à la vanille, de pommes; he mentions à la russe as the name used by others for what he called à la parisienne. There are many variants. Most charlottes are served cool, so they are more common in warmer seasons.
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