Petit Gâteau

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Petit Gâteau (in French, small cake; plural: Petits Gâteaux) is a dessert composed of a small chocolate cake with crunchy rind and mellow filling that is served hot with vanilla ice cream in a plate.

The dessert has popularized in New York restaurants in the 90s. Nowadays variations of the cake/ice cream flavors have come to include fruits and even alcoholic beverages, such as whisky.

This dessert has also been know to be made using crepes, in which case it is multiple crepes staked on one another separated by some kind of filling such as warm jam or berries.

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