French Cream: The Secret Ingredient to Perfect Desserts and Culinary Excellence

Renowned for its richness, purity, and versatility, French cream remains the preferred choice of chefs and culinary artisans worldwide.

SINGAPORE, May 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- From the lush pastures of Normandy to the culinary capital of Paris, French cream has long held a place at the heart of fine cuisine. Celebrated for its exceptional quality, smooth texture, and rich flavor, it reflects generations of savoir-faire, a blend of tradition, terroir, and expert craftsmanship.

Produced under strict quality standards and sourced from pasture-raised cows, French cream offers a naturally velvety consistency and a high butterfat content, lending depth and elegance to both sweet and savory creations. Whether whipped into airy peaks for pastries, folded into classic French sauces, or used in iconic dishes like crème brûlée, it delivers unmatched versatility and consistency.

"French cream is not just an ingredient—it's an expression of craftsmanship and culinary heritage," says Emilie Martin, Managing Director APAC, CNIEL. "Its unique qualities make it an essential element in kitchens around the world, from Michelin-starred restaurants to passionate home bakers."

Celebrating Three Years of Culinary Collaboration in Singapore

Over the past three years, the French cream campaign run by CNIEL and co-funded by the European Union, has proudly partnered with some of Singapore's most celebrated chefs to highlight its excellence and adaptability. Through culinary workshops, tasting sessions, and masterclasses, these chefs have demonstrated how French cream elevates both traditional French desserts and inventive Asian-inspired dishes.

As Chef Cheryl Koh of Les Amis shared, "I only work with French cream, for its flavor, texture, and color. I use liquid cream, fresh cream, and fleurette cream. It has a fresh and pleasant flavor, whips beautifully, and has a wonderful texture."

" French cream has long been the heart of dessert-making, blending flavor and texture to add elegance and richness to every bite. " says Chef Alicia, Nesuto

Savoring Singapore: A Culinary Adventure

In 2025, Singapore continues to celebrate French cream through a series of dynamic, hands-on events bringing together professionals, aspiring chefs, and food lovers.

The 3rd Rising Pastry Award: A Celebration of Tomorrow's Stars

On May 15th, 2025, At-Sunrice Global Chef Academy hosted the 3rd edition of the Rising Pastry Award, a prestigious competition designed to spotlight the region's most promising young pastry chefs and home bakers. This year's winner earned a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a five-day pastry course at the esteemed École Ducasse in France, alongside other ASEAN finalists.

A distinguished panel of judges—including Chef Alicia Wong (Nesuto), Chef Alice Hsiao (Tarte), Chef Kelly (The Prestine, Hyatt), Chef Cindy Khoo (Hyatt), and Chef Frank (At-Sunrice)—evaluated the finalists and awarded the grand prize to Stacy Kwek (@sk.staceyyy), whose inventive creation showcased the elegance and versatility of French cream.

"Competing in the Rising Pastry Chef competition was an incredible first experience that pushed me out of my comfort zone and helped me grow under pressure. I gained valuable insights, made new friends, and learned from other talented chefs. I'm truly grateful for the opportunity, the support, and the positive feedback that boosted my confidence", the winner said.

Reflections from Past Winners

Last year's winner, Casey, shared:

"The experience in France was unforgettable. Exploring pastry shops, tasting unique combinations of local fruits and French cream, and attending MOF-led classes at École Ducasse taught me invaluable techniques and deepened my pastry knowledge."

The Year 1 winner, Kirsten, also reflected fondly on her journey:

"Joining this competition back in 2023 was unexpected. I was blessed to win and enjoy a memorable week at Ferrandi School in Paris. I appreciate it immensely. A big thank you to the team for organizing such a great event."

What's Next for French Cream in 2025

The campaign continues with a rich calendar of events:

• Student Workshops: Future pastry talents will participate in hands-on workshops at ITE Culinary School and At-Sunrice Global Chef Academy with Chef Cheryl Koh from Les Amis, who will mentor aspiring young chefs in advanced pastry techniques using French cream.
• Trade Demonstrations: Chef Alicia Wong (Nesuto) will headline an exclusive industry event, exploring French cream's creative potential in modern desserts.
• Media Gatherings: Influencers and journalists will be invited to an exclusive tasting experience, an intimate celebration of French elegance and culinary artistry.

The Recipe - Introducing the Exclusive Pandan Gateau Basque by Chef Alicia, Nesuto

In this exclusive creation to celebrate Singapore's 60th anniversary, Chef Alicia pays tribute to heritage through innovation. Known for her refined technique and cultural sensitivity, she shares the inspiration behind her latest dessert, a Pandan Gâteau Basque: "In my kitchen, I'm drawn to infusion—a method that draws out delicate flavors and transforms them into new textures. For this recipe, I wanted to highlight pandan, a Southeast Asian staple often seen in heritage sweets. Inspired by familiar local treats like egg tarts and refined by French pastry techniques, I created a Pandan Gâteau Basque with a touch of rose—nostalgic yet intentional, honoring tradition through a contemporary lens."

For the video recipe and expert tips directly from Chef Alicia, visit https://www.creamessential.com/sg and start creating your own exquisite Pandan Gateau Basque today.

Gateaux Basque Dough 

Ingredients: 

• Whole eggs – 50g 
• Egg yolks – 20g 
• Icing sugar – 200g 
• Salt – 1.5g 
• Plain flour – 560g 
• Chilled cubed butter – 280g 
• Whipping cream – 80g 

Instructions: 

1. Chill Ingredients: 

• Chill the butter, plain flour, and icing sugar in the fridge. 

2. Mix Wet Ingredients: 

• In a bowl, whisk together the whole eggs, egg yolks, whipping cream, and salt. Set aside. 

3. Make Dough Base: 

• In a food processor, combine the chilled butter, plain flour, and icing sugar. Pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. 

4. Combine Wet and Dry: 

• Add the egg mixture to the dough base and mix in a stand mixer until combined. 

5. French "Frassage" Method: 

• Turn the dough onto a work surface. Gently work it with your hands using the "frassage" method until smooth. 

6. Chill Dough: 

• Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1–2 hours. 

7. Roll and Line Tart: 

• After chilling, roll the dough to your desired thickness. Line the tart ring with the dough and refrigerate while preparing the custard. 

Gateaux Basque Custard 

Ingredients: 

• Salt – 1.2g 
• Milk – 400g 
• Cream – 320g 
• Sugar – 72g 
• Cornstarch – 32g 
• Plain flour – 28g 
• Egg yolks – 48g 
• Pandan leaves – 40g 

Instructions: 

1. Infuse Milk and Cream: 

• Cut the pandan leaves and combine them with milk, cream, and salt. Vacuum pack the mixture and place it in a water bath at 60°C for 30 minutes. 

2. Blend and Strain: 

• After 30 minutes, blend the mixture using a hand blender. Fine-strain it into a pot and add 50% of the sugar. 

3. Prepare Egg Mixture: 

• In a bowl, whisk together the cornstarch, plain flour, egg yolks, and remaining 50% of the sugar. Set aside. 

4. Temper Eggs: 

• Bring the infused milk mixture to a simmer. Gradually temper it into the egg mixture, then return to the pot. 

5. Cook Custard: 

• Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until the custard thickens. 

6. Cool Custard: 

• Pour the custard onto a tray and allow it to cool completely. 

Final Assembly 

1. Fill Tart Shell: 

• Fill the chilled tart shell with the cooled custard, smoothing the top. 

2. Top with Dough: 

• Roll out the remaining dough and place it on top of the custard. Seal the edges. 

3. Egg Wash and Design: 

• Brush the top with egg wash and create a design using a fork or pick. 

4. Chill and Bake: 

• Chill the assembled gateaux in the fridge for 2–3 hours. Preheat the oven to 170°C and bake until golden brown. 

To discover more recipes with French cream by renowned chefs accross Asia please go to the CREAM ESSENTIAL website https://www.creamessential.com/sg

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French Cream: The Secret Ingredient to Perfect Desserts and Culinary Excellence

French Cream: The Secret Ingredient to Perfect Desserts and Culinary Excellence

• Innovative technologies enable retailers to implement intelligent stores at scale to deliver smarter, more responsive shopping experiences
• Industry partners to display production-ready AI solutions for loss prevention, digital twins, AI agents, customer analytics, and more

SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail's Big Show -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced collaboration with technology partners for AI-powered intelligent in-store retail solutions designed to meet increasing customer expectations with scalability, improved productivity and increased profitability.

"AI is reshaping shopping experiences, enabling real-time analysis of video and other data to give retailers actionable insights to optimizing staff efficiency, reducing shrinkage, increasing profits, and avoiding stock-outs," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "By combining Supermicro's complete and scalable AI platforms with NVIDIA RTX PRO accelerated computing solutions, we're enabling retailers to build intelligent stores that maximize the benefits of AI-driven applications."

According to the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Retail & CPG report, 89% of respondents reported that AI is helping to increase annual revenue, while 95% said it is helping decrease annual costs, highlighting the measurable business impact retailers are already achieving because of AI¹.

For more information, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/edge/servers

Supermicro Complete and Scalable Edge AI Infrastructure

Retail-centric AI applications require sub-second responsiveness which is only possible, at scale, if data is processed directly at the edge. Supermicro's Edge AI infrastructure enables the deployment of solutions in distributed environments, such as intelligent retail stores and supply chains, to provide a complete solution.

Deploying at the edge presents a myriad of unique challenges in comparison to the data center. Supermicro's broad Edge AI portfolio of products helps customers and partners overcome these challenges while striking the right balance between performance and ROI.

For deployments in harsh environments where conditioned space is not available, the fanless E103 series of products bring AI processing power where it couldn't go before. Supermicro also offers a fanned small form factor E300 series systems with AI capabilities.

When there is a demanding AI workload at the edge, customers and partners can turn to numerous systems capable of holding the latest discrete GPUs for AI acceleration. Ranging from 1U short-depth to larger 4U form factors, solutions can be right-sized to meet the customer's needs by enabling the latest generation of NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series.

Supermicro Intelligent Store Partners

Supermicro is collaborating with ecosystem partners including Everseen, Kinetic Vision, ALLSIDES, LiveX, WobotAI, and Aible, to create intelligent stores that positively impact day-to-day retail operations as well as longer term supply chain management.

• Everseen's Evercheck solution uses Vision AI to help reduce shrink and improve staff productivity and customer experiences. Built on the Everseen Vision AI platform, Evercheck detects, and deters recovery of unwanted behaviors at checkout, helping retailers recover losses and streamline front-of-store operations.

"Everseen has spent years working alongside some of the world's largest retailers, understanding the realities of the store floor and solving loss challenges where they actually happen," said Joe White, CEO of Everseen. "By partnering with Supermicro and leveraging NVIDIA-accelerated computing, Evercheck delivers real-time computer vision at the edge - transforming store activity into intelligence retailers can act on immediately."

• Wobot AI, focused on building Video AI Agents for the physical world, will be demonstrating how the cameras retailers already own can be turned into systems that continuously observe, learn, and produce usable insight. By converting ordinary CCTV infrastructure into autonomous agents that recognize patterns, identify friction, and surface decisions, Wobot's AI Agents enable retailers to improve day-to-day operations with practical and measurable outcomes.

"By working with Supermicro and NVIDIA at the edge, we're able to deploy Video AI Agents in a way that's scalable, reliable, and focused on real-time operational insight—not experimentation," said Will Kelso, President, Revenue & Growth at Wobot AI.

• LiveX AI - "Retail is entering an era where AI agents become the default interaction layer between brands and customers," said Jerry Li, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveX AI. "With NVIDIA's accelerated AI and Supermicro's edge infrastructure, we can deploy a helpful, human-like AI agent directly in physical spaces—such as kiosks or holograms—bringing the speed, intelligence, and continuity of digital experiences into brick-and-mortar environments. This collaboration makes AI agents usable, in real time, where customers actually are."

• • Kinetic Vision and ALLSIDES are bundling their expertise for a True Digital Twin solution designed to develop, test, and optimize supply chain processes, checkout stations, and other complex systems.

"The combination of Supermicro's high reliability optimized infrastructure and NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack gives Kinetic Vision the foundation to innovate at speed. Together, we are helping retailers move from experimentation to production-ready AI solutions that drive measurable operational and customer experience gains," says Jeremy Jarratt, Kinetic Vision CEO.

Franz Tschimben, CEO at ALLSIDES, adds: "Building on the combined strengths of NVIDIA and Supermicro, we deliver a high-fidelity 3D digital twin data layer for AI training that enables retailers to power applications across the entire retail value chain — from training robots with physical AI, to production and production planning, virtual store layouts and consumer feedback systems, and e-commerce integrations — helping drive higher conversion rates, faster decision-making, and greater operational efficiency."

• Supermicro will also feature Superb AI's retail-focused VSS solution, combining Superb AI's proprietary VLM with NVIDIA AI Blueprint components to enable subjective reasoning capabilities, natural-language search, automated incident summarization, and customer behavior insights across store camera networks.
• Aible will highlight its automated agent solution, which analyzes vast amounts of data across millions of patterns to explain changes in retail KPIs, such as the average purchase amount or number of purchases. Aible will also demonstrate how the latest NVIDIA Retail blueprints can be incorporated into agentic solutions that automatically customize customer experiences and optimize retail operations at scale.

Arijit Sengupta, CEO of Aible, adds, "Today's market and labor conditions are constantly changing. Only autonomous agents can understand and adjust to these ever-changing patterns of customer behavior, inventory costs and supply, and labor access at scale. Working with NVIDIA and Supermicro, Aible brings autonomous agents subject to business user review to the retail edge."

These intelligent retail solutions will be demonstrated by Supermicro and its partners at NRF: Retail's Big Show in New York City from January 11-13. To learn more about AI-powered retail applications or Supermicro's AI Infrastructure solutions, visit Supermicro booth #5281 and attend its speaking session featuring PepsiCo and Kinetic Vision. For more details, please visit www.supermicro.com/NRF

¹Source: "NVIDIA State of AI in Retail and CPG" 2026

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

• Innovative technologies enable retailers to implement intelligent stores at scale to deliver smarter, more responsive shopping experiences
• Industry partners to display production-ready AI solutions for loss prevention, digital twins, AI agents, customer analytics, and more

SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail's Big Show -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced collaboration with technology partners for AI-powered intelligent in-store retail solutions designed to meet increasing customer expectations with scalability, improved productivity and increased profitability.

"AI is reshaping shopping experiences, enabling real-time analysis of video and other data to give retailers actionable insights to optimizing staff efficiency, reducing shrinkage, increasing profits, and avoiding stock-outs," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "By combining Supermicro's complete and scalable AI platforms with NVIDIA RTX PRO accelerated computing solutions, we're enabling retailers to build intelligent stores that maximize the benefits of AI-driven applications."

According to the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Retail & CPG report, 89% of respondents reported that AI is helping to increase annual revenue, while 95% said it is helping decrease annual costs, highlighting the measurable business impact retailers are already achieving because of AI¹.

For more information, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/edge/servers

Supermicro Complete and Scalable Edge AI Infrastructure

Retail-centric AI applications require sub-second responsiveness which is only possible, at scale, if data is processed directly at the edge. Supermicro's Edge AI infrastructure enables the deployment of solutions in distributed environments, such as intelligent retail stores and supply chains, to provide a complete solution.

Deploying at the edge presents a myriad of unique challenges in comparison to the data center. Supermicro's broad Edge AI portfolio of products helps customers and partners overcome these challenges while striking the right balance between performance and ROI.

For deployments in harsh environments where conditioned space is not available, the fanless E103 series of products bring AI processing power where it couldn't go before. Supermicro also offers a fanned small form factor E300 series systems with AI capabilities.

When there is a demanding AI workload at the edge, customers and partners can turn to numerous systems capable of holding the latest discrete GPUs for AI acceleration. Ranging from 1U short-depth to larger 4U form factors, solutions can be right-sized to meet the customer's needs by enabling the latest generation of NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell series.

Supermicro Intelligent Store Partners

Supermicro is collaborating with ecosystem partners including Everseen, Kinetic Vision, ALLSIDES, LiveX, WobotAI, and Aible, to create intelligent stores that positively impact day-to-day retail operations as well as longer term supply chain management.

• Everseen's Evercheck solution uses Vision AI to help reduce shrink and improve staff productivity and customer experiences. Built on the Everseen Vision AI platform, Evercheck detects, and deters recovery of unwanted behaviors at checkout, helping retailers recover losses and streamline front-of-store operations.

"Everseen has spent years working alongside some of the world's largest retailers, understanding the realities of the store floor and solving loss challenges where they actually happen," said Joe White, CEO of Everseen. "By partnering with Supermicro and leveraging NVIDIA-accelerated computing, Evercheck delivers real-time computer vision at the edge - transforming store activity into intelligence retailers can act on immediately."

• Wobot AI, focused on building Video AI Agents for the physical world, will be demonstrating how the cameras retailers already own can be turned into systems that continuously observe, learn, and produce usable insight. By converting ordinary CCTV infrastructure into autonomous agents that recognize patterns, identify friction, and surface decisions, Wobot's AI Agents enable retailers to improve day-to-day operations with practical and measurable outcomes.

"By working with Supermicro and NVIDIA at the edge, we're able to deploy Video AI Agents in a way that's scalable, reliable, and focused on real-time operational insight—not experimentation," said Will Kelso, President, Revenue & Growth at Wobot AI.

• LiveX AI - "Retail is entering an era where AI agents become the default interaction layer between brands and customers," said Jerry Li, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveX AI. "With NVIDIA's accelerated AI and Supermicro's edge infrastructure, we can deploy a helpful, human-like AI agent directly in physical spaces—such as kiosks or holograms—bringing the speed, intelligence, and continuity of digital experiences into brick-and-mortar environments. This collaboration makes AI agents usable, in real time, where customers actually are."

• • Kinetic Vision and ALLSIDES are bundling their expertise for a True Digital Twin solution designed to develop, test, and optimize supply chain processes, checkout stations, and other complex systems.

"The combination of Supermicro's high reliability optimized infrastructure and NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack gives Kinetic Vision the foundation to innovate at speed. Together, we are helping retailers move from experimentation to production-ready AI solutions that drive measurable operational and customer experience gains," says Jeremy Jarratt, Kinetic Vision CEO.

Franz Tschimben, CEO at ALLSIDES, adds: "Building on the combined strengths of NVIDIA and Supermicro, we deliver a high-fidelity 3D digital twin data layer for AI training that enables retailers to power applications across the entire retail value chain — from training robots with physical AI, to production and production planning, virtual store layouts and consumer feedback systems, and e-commerce integrations — helping drive higher conversion rates, faster decision-making, and greater operational efficiency."

• Supermicro will also feature Superb AI's retail-focused VSS solution, combining Superb AI's proprietary VLM with NVIDIA AI Blueprint components to enable subjective reasoning capabilities, natural-language search, automated incident summarization, and customer behavior insights across store camera networks.
• Aible will highlight its automated agent solution, which analyzes vast amounts of data across millions of patterns to explain changes in retail KPIs, such as the average purchase amount or number of purchases. Aible will also demonstrate how the latest NVIDIA Retail blueprints can be incorporated into agentic solutions that automatically customize customer experiences and optimize retail operations at scale.

Arijit Sengupta, CEO of Aible, adds, "Today's market and labor conditions are constantly changing. Only autonomous agents can understand and adjust to these ever-changing patterns of customer behavior, inventory costs and supply, and labor access at scale. Working with NVIDIA and Supermicro, Aible brings autonomous agents subject to business user review to the retail edge."

These intelligent retail solutions will be demonstrated by Supermicro and its partners at NRF: Retail's Big Show in New York City from January 11-13. To learn more about AI-powered retail applications or Supermicro's AI Infrastructure solutions, visit Supermicro booth #5281 and attend its speaking session featuring PepsiCo and Kinetic Vision. For more details, please visit www.supermicro.com/NRF

¹Source: "NVIDIA State of AI in Retail and CPG" 2026

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **

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