National Cheese Soufflé Day

National Cheese Soufflé Day is on May 18th in the United States.

Soufflés are lightly baked cakes that can be either sweet or savoury, depending on what ingredients are used. The name derives from a French word and means "to blow up" which refers to how the dish should come out of the oven.

Egg whites, which have beaten to what is known as soft peak meringue, and a cream sauce or purée, such as crème pâtissière or something with that flavour, are the base ingredients in soufflés. When a soufflé comes out of the oven, it should be all puffed up, but it will quickly collapse in a matter of minutes after being cooked, so it has to be served and eaten straight away, rather than being saved for later use.

This soufflé is, at least usually, a savoury dish, as it has cheese added to the ingredients (there are some sweet cheese dishes, but soufflé would not normally be ones of them).

National Chocolate Soufflé Day

National Chocolate Soufflé Day is on February 28th in the United states.

Another day celebrating a dish that contains chocolate, and that is also a sweet dessert.

The soufflé is a type of baked cake made from egg whites beaten to a soft peak meringue, as well as a base such as cream sauce, purée or purée. It is also combined with other ingredients, and can be sweet or savoury depending on what those ingredients  are. In this case, it is a sweet dish, and the primary ingredient is chocolate. The name means "to blow up" which is what the dessert does - it becomes puffed up and fluffy after cooking, although it does fall again quite quickly. It is quite a difficult dish to make properly, and it isn't unknown for it to never properly puff up.

Often made in individual ramekins, the dish is frequently pierced and filled with a liquid sauce of some type - the type depending on the type of soufflé. In the case of a chocolate soufflé, chocolate sauce could be poured in.