Quiz: Croissant my heart and hope to die

This is a dessert called île flottante in French. It consists of meringue floating on vanilla custard. With the earliest known reference in English being in the cookbook The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) by Hannah Glasse, the dish's English name resembles its appearance. With the image as a clue, can you guess its English name?

This is a dessert of sweetened chestnut purée in the form of vermicelli, topped with whipped cream. Created in the nineteenth century, the dish is named after a mountain since it resembles a snow-capped mountain. Can you name the dessert?

A dish served hot or cold, it is also referred to as an "icebox cake". Bread, sponge cake or biscuits/cookies are used to line a mould, which is then filled with a fruit puree or custard. The origins of its name are unclear and some people suggest that it is a corruption of the Old English word for a kind of custard. However, the earliest known attestation of the name is in a New York magazine in 1796. Name this dish, which is also the name of the city in North Carolina, US.

Pictured is a cake made with layers of almond sponge cake soaked in coffee syrup, layered with ganache and coffee, and covered in a chocolate glaze. The dish is named after a place of performance since the layers of the cake resembled the levels at this place of performance, one of the most famous of these places is located in Sydney. Name this dish.

What you are seeing here is a dessert invented in the late 1800s by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London. It was invented to honour an Australian soprano. Name this dish that is named after a tropical fruit (that is used in the dish) and the sooprano's second name.

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