What French term names a cake made from layers of crêpes?

The French term for a cake made from layers of crêpes is “gâteau de crêpes.”

The name literally means “crêpe cake.” It refers to a dessert assembled from many thin crêpes with a filling—often pastry cream, whipped cream, buttercream, fruit or chocolate—spread between the layers. Unlike a conventional sponge cake, its structure comes from repeated layers of soft, flexible pancakes.

A closely related Japanese term is mille-crêpes, written ミルクレープ. Despite its French appearance, mille-crêpes is a Japanese-made expression influenced by mille-feuille, the layered pastry whose name means “a thousand leaves.” Crêpe cakes usually contain around 15 to 30 layers, rather than literally a thousand.

The dessert is sometimes confused with individual filled crêpes, but the distinction is straightforward: a filled crêpe is folded or rolled, while a gâteau de crêpes is stacked into a sliceable cake. Pastry chef Emy Wada helped popularize this style internationally through her Japanese cake boutiques and later through the Lady M brand.