plural tuiles
: a French wafer-like cookie made chiefly with flour, egg whites, sugar, and butter and shaped while warm into a curved or rolled form
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The whole thing is topped with a crackling, golden tuile made from chicken drippings—a nod to the crisp noodles, the tender meat, both and neither.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
The Fallen Leaves dessert will taste like autumn with maple ganache, cinnamon tuile and salted caramel ice cream.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
Another layered dish that lingered on my taste buds all the way home, this started with a spiced pumpkin cake drenched in tangy orange flower syrup, topped with a scoop of mildly sweet crème fraiche sorbet, an almond tuile cookie and a dollop of fluffy pumpkin diplomat cream.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
One of them is haiku for a brilliant dessert featuring milk sorbet in a strawberry tuile garnished with herby nepitella blossoms.
—Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
Hers is topped with a crunchy chocolate tuile and served with a swirl of passion fruit ice cream.
—Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
There’s no need for accompaniment, but a tuile or other thin butter cookie will match the delicacy of this light gratin nicely.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
The pepper is pickled, sliced, breaded in rice flour and fried, resulting in a garnish that’s part tuile and part candy.
—Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
The Fallen Leaves dessert will taste like autumn with maple ganache, cinnamon tuile and salted caramel ice cream.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
Another layered dish that lingered on my taste buds all the way home, this started with a spiced pumpkin cake drenched in tangy orange flower syrup, topped with a scoop of mildly sweet crème fraiche sorbet, an almond tuile cookie and a dollop of fluffy pumpkin diplomat cream.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
One of them is haiku for a brilliant dessert featuring milk sorbet in a strawberry tuile garnished with herby nepitella blossoms.
—Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
Hers is topped with a crunchy chocolate tuile and served with a swirl of passion fruit ice cream.
—Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
There’s no need for accompaniment, but a tuile or other thin butter cookie will match the delicacy of this light gratin nicely.
—Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
The pepper is pickled, sliced, breaded in rice flour and fried, resulting in a garnish that’s part tuile and part candy.
—Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
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“Tuile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tuile. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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