Gateau

I hope the gateau was a delicious treat for your anniversary. ❋ Sara (2007)

I am up to trying out a new "gateau" receipe and have told my family who are "tres joyeux"!! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am up to trying out a new "gateau" receipe and have told my family who are "tres joyeux"! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was happy to comply, and for the record, Dad offered to make my second cake for me but I insisted that I would do it and decided to return to my traditional birthday gateau which is a black forest cake. ❋ Brilynn (2007)

A gateau is also made of pig's liver; it is therefore rather difficult to define what a "gateau" is. ❋ Various (N/A)

I have baked this gateau tres souvent, and nearly always double the proportions except for the sugar which I actually halve! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Crystal Mountain's Thistle Pub & Grille, located in Kinlochen, a Scottish-inspired lodge near the Clipper quad lift, might sound rather bar-like and it does have a wide selection of Scottish ales, Michigan wines, designer martinis and single malt whiskeys, but it's helmed by CIA-trained executive chef Darren Hawley who regularly whips up such exquisitely delicious delights as smoked pheasant and morel galantine with pickled beet and goat cheese gateau. ❋ Pam Grout (2011)

There's a disastrous meeting in a Berni Inn with two would-be posh ex-choristers they have a duvet, where waiters burst into song and dance – "We'd go through hell/ for our clientele", and an enormous Black Forest gateau is denounced as "cake in drag". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Then you can invite all the tired princesses to participate in the big gateau ceremony involving as many cake – options as possible (sampling takes a looong time) with contributions from the other mums. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She opens her mouth in the shape of a scream - but no scream comes out - just the squelch of her black forest gateau - and she's speaking in posh about pizza and puff and how she must lose at least half a stone, to please her boyfriend: the Euro MP. ❋ Penny Goring (2011)

William Butterfield's gothic confection, half seat of learning, half Black Forest gateau, has divided residents ever since its completion in 1870. ❋ Unknown (2011)

C'est du gateau = it's easy (Piece of cake), but it is more fun to use it in the negative, example: ❋ Unknown (2009)

A few months ago a caterer local to me in south London staged a retro evening: prawn cocktail, steak and chips, Black Forest gateau – pleasant and evocative enough, but just a little too knowing, too sophisticated in the flavouring to convince. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Matthieu's mother, Corinne, had prepared five desserts for the celebration and, knowing what a good cook she is, I got in line illico* to sample the gateau au chocolat, * crumble au poires, * Madeleines, gateau au yaourt* and a brownie ... or two. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Angela_D_Merkel Helping @Lagarde carry out structural adjustments on the black forest gateau. ❋ Unknown (2012)

I am wondering if you were distracted and concerned about having left le gateau in the oven while you ran car pool, which evidenced itself by your reaction to having to make a longer trip than you thought you'd have to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Batuman reads Red Cavalry while trying to cook a black forest gateau. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Le gateau seems like a good thing to help us through it, though! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Girl: Did you see [shaniqua], going on all [gassed] about her new weave Girl 2: I know right?! And it looks so [gateau] as well ❋ Lwb07mb (2011)

[My Girlfriend] was [feeling] adventerous last night, so we [made] a Chocolate Gateau. ❋ PandaPower (2010)