| Religieuse | |
| Image Alt: | Religieuses au chocolat |
| Country: | France |
| Course: | Dessert |
| Main Ingredient: | Flour and crème pâtissière |
A religieuse (pronounced as /fr/) is a French pastry made of a small choux pastry case stacked on top of a larger one, both filled with French: [[crème pâtissière]], commonly flavoured with chocolate or mocha.[1] Each case is topped with a ganache of the same flavour as the filling, then attached to each other using piped buttercream icing. It is a type of éclair.[2]
The pastry, whose name means "nun", is supposed to represent the papal mitre. The religieuse was supposedly conceived in the mid-nineteenth century; choux pastry was invented in the 16th century.