Final answer:
The question describes a macaron, which is a sweet dessert made with ground nuts and often filled with flavored buttercream. It does not pertain to the paintings by Thiebaud, which depict different types of cake desserts. The mention of buttercream cake and baklava are unrelated to macarons but underline the diversity of sweet desserts.
Step-by-step explanation:
The dessert described in the question is a macaron. Macarons are made from ground almonds and/or hazelnuts, are piped into spiral disks, and are typically filled and layered with balls or dollops of flavored buttercream such as praline, chocolate, or coffee. The reference to the dessert is incorrect within the context of the paintings by Thiebaud, as his works Cakes and Boston Cremes represent different types of cakes, depicted with their own unique frosting and design elements.
Solution 2 mentions a Buttercream cake as a counterexample in a discussion about desserts, noting that not all desserts are low fat. This shows that the subject being discussed could be misleading if related to the dietary properties rather than the artistic properties of the depicted desserts.
Cuisine at the Topkapi Palace discusses baklava, a confection from the Eastern Mediterranean, which is unrelated to macarons but shares the quality of being a sweet dessert made in layers.