I understand about the frustrating internet search. I spent 15 years searching for a lost childhood book because we couldn't remember the proper title and were going in the wrong direction. (I did finally find it last year, don't despair! LOL) Try 'custard' instead of creme. I did find a description in a french bakery: "Custard Brioche - Brioche Cross Filled with Custard and Topped with Coarse Sugar Crystals" that really sounds like what you are making but no other name for it. Brioche sucre is not necessarily filled and baba au rhum is soaked so not what you are describing. And maybe look at sites for French patissieres to see what they offer. Elyana, I'm on that same search! I've found every childhood book save one: about 5 Chinese brothers who somehow controlled the sea. I remember one had a head shaped like a bowl, and he carried the ocean "in his head" - I remember the photo SO well... Actually, still looking for the Book of Knowledge version of the Will o' the Wisp, too. Thanks for a late-afternoon smile...

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