Not all Mont Blanc recipes involve meringue: Helen Goh and Yotam Ottolenghi’s book Sweet, for example, features a recipe for pastry-based Mont Blanc tarts; Taste France magazine anchors it on a shortbread biscuit; and I’m reliably informed that the Japanese prefer to build their mountains on a light sponge.
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Mont Blanc, or Monte Bianco, depending on which side you’re admiring it from, is the highest peak in western Europe, straddling the Franco-Italian border like some magnificent, icing sugar-dusted dessert.
The Angelina chain, renowned for its Mont Blancs from Wuhan to New York, makes individual 6cm meringues, while maître pâtissier Christophe Michalak prefers large boules, so to speak.
With the mountain losing 2.2 metres in height in the past three years, however, the locals take a very dim view of anyone having a go with a spoon, so if you want a taste of a dish that Nigella Lawson describes as “my favourite pudding of all time”, you’re better off making your own.
