Through the year, food has evolved into a whole new transformation. What was once simple consumable has now become an elaborate dish. Foods are also useful in associating certain countries like taco for Mexico, kimchi for Korea, spaghetti for Italy and many more. Apart from these internationally know delectables, local products in the Philippines are also known globally.
In Bacolod, apart from the breath-taking natural wonders and man made destination it offers, it is also known to produce products of unique concocted foods that are notably categorized in this place only liked the famous chicken inasal. Yet, apart from this well-known Bacolodnon pride, local residents have another signature pastrt dish that would sureky satisfy one's cravings for sweet pleasure, and that is Napoleones!
What can "Napoleones" be possibly made of?
Napoleones is a puff pastry (a light flaky multilayered pastry made by repeated rolling and folding of extremely rich buttery pastry dough, which then rises during baking) stuffed with custard cream and has sugar glaze on top.
Napoleones was considered to be one of varieties of Mille-feuille, a pastry of French origin. According to Wikipedia.com traditionally, a mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry alternating with two layers of pastry cream, but sometimes whipped cream or jam are substituted.
The top pastry is dusted with confectioner's sugar and sometines cocoa, pastry crumbs or pulverized seeds (e.g. roasted almonds) alternatively the top glazed with icing or fondant in alternating white (icing) and brown (chocolate) stripes, and combed.
Instill don't know what it is. I think the dough is what we call "bladerdeeg" (leaf dough) we fill it with apple.