Tip You’ll find creme caramels in the refrigerator section at the shops, in the vicinity of the chocolate mousse cups. You could use a tin of condensed milk with similar success, though it’ll be sweeter.
Conquering Napoleon
Every family has ‘a cake’, and Napoleon is ours. It’s the Russian version of a French millefeuille (‘one thousand layers’) or the Australian vanilla slice, which makes sense, because the many, many layers of cream and pastry in a traditional Napoleon are a bit like a babushka doll crossed with a millefeuille, and just as complex to make.
Of course,
