Bastille Barricade Parfait
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TypeDessert
Serves4 people
DateOctober 17, 2026
A barricade dessert: sharp lemon cream and crisp cookies, stacked as protective boards against the protest.
Layers of sharp lemon cream and crispy cookies, stacked like a barricade in front of a shop window: a dessert full of tension, tang, and crunch. The plating represents the wooden boards protecting shops during the Bastille protest.
Ingredients
- 4 lemons (organic)
- 150 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- 100 g butter
- 200 ml whipping cream
- 8 kletskoppen (or other thin crisp cookies)
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 tsp lemon zest (extra, for garnish)
Method
- Grate the zest of 3 lemons and juice all lemons.
- Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a heatproof bowl until light.
- Add lemon juice and zest to the egg mixture.
- Set the bowl over a bain-marie and stir until thickened (about 10 minutes).
- Add the butter in cubes and stir until dissolved. Let cool.
- Whip the cream with powdered sugar until stiff and fold into the cooled lemon cream.
- Carefully break the cookies into rectangular pieces about 5x10 cm.
- Spoon some lemon cream onto each plate. Stand a piece of cookie upright in it, alternating layers of cream and cookie to build a small barricade of 3-4 layers.
- Garnish with extra lemon zest over the barricade.
Serving notes
- Serve on a rectangular plate for the shop window effect.
- Sprinkle extra powdered sugar as 'dust clouds' around the barricade.