Coussin de Lyon is a French confection made of chocolate ganache flavored with curaçao and covered with green marzipan. Its name means “Lyon pillow” and it has a history dating back to a 1643 epidemic.
Coussin de Lyon is a French confection made from chocolate and marzipan. Originally from Lyon, a city located in eastern central France, the confection has a filling consisting of a liqueur-flavored chocolate ganache covered with green marzipan. Translated from French, coussin de Lyon means “Lyon pillow,” which describes not only the pillow-like appearance of the French confection, but also the story of its origin.
Inside a Coussin de Lyon is a chocolate ganache, which is made when melted butter and cream are combined with chocolate. This produces a shiny looking glaze. Ganache can be used to spread on cakes and can also be used as a filling for pastry desserts.
The unique filling inside Coussin de Lyon is made by combining chocolate ganache with curaçao, a liqueur named after the island it comes from in the Caribbean Sea. The liqueur tastes similar to that of an orange, but is made from the peel of the laraha citrus fruit. When the peel is dried, the sweet fragrance of the laraha fruit is released and a citrus flavor is created which has a slightly bitter taste.
Around the curaçao-flavored chocolate ganache that fills the coussin de Lyon is green marzipan. Marzipan is also known as marzipan and is made from sugar and ground almonds or almond flour. It is used for icing cakes and also for constructing desserts. Usually yellow in color, marzipan can be colored using food coloring.
Originally from the city of Lyon, France, coussin de Lyon has a history that extends to an epidemic in 1643. Located near Lyon is a hill called Fourvière hill, also known as the “praying hill”. Members of the Lyon council, known as the city councillor, went to the hill amid the outbreak, where a statue of the Virgin Mary stood, offering a gold token on a silk cushion and a wax candle weighing seven pounds in the hope that the city would be cured of its epidemic. Since that time, the procession on the hill of Fourvière still continues, and was the inspiration behind the creation of the Coussin de Lyon in 1960.
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