I have come accross this in menus, recipes. It simply refers to "dairy dessert".

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Note added at 3 mins (2008-08-22 14:08:02 GMT)
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i.e prepared with milk "dessert à base de lait"

See for instance "strawberry/coffee dessert cream" on the web.

IF AND ONLY IF your target dialect is U.S. English, "pudding" is the word you are looking for.

Some people are talking about this being an item on a menu, or an ingredient in a dessert.

For me, the primary sense is that of those Tout-le-monde-aime-D*****-type desserts that come in packs of four plastic containers and in three main flavours: coffee, caramel and , and , and ... is it vanilla? I only ever buy the coffee ones.

So for me it's a dairy dessert.

The ones in my fridge at the moment are those distributed by Aldi:

Crème dessert
Saveur Café
A la crème fraîche

The ingredients are:
Lait entier, sucre, crème fraîche (4%), amidon transformé de maïs (don't you love they way the stick to the spoon?), arôme café, colorant E150c, lactose, gélifiant E407, protéines de lait.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-08-22 17:40:41 GMT)
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As I say, given that the primary ingredient is milk, and that there is only 4% cream in it, for me it is a dairy dessert. But obviously for marketing purposes it's desirable to tout it as a cream dessert, which is what Dantwo does, by and large.

But the duality of prototypes has also contributed to soften Danone's image: Danette CREAM DESSERT signifies hedonism, pleasure and opulence. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0749442832...

Danette has extended its Danette line with Danette on a bed of fruit, a CREAM DESSERT with a layer of fruit fondants. There are two products introduced: ...
www.faqs.org/.../FRANCE-DANONES-TAILLEFINE-PAUSE-SAVEUR-FRA...

Danette. (531) International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks ... yogurts, drinking yogurts, mousses, creams, DESSERT CREAMS, fresh cream, ...
www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/madrid/key.jsp?KEY=797657

Ah, it's chocolate:
In Danette you have the cream CARAMEL and CHOCOLATE, ...
www.arabianbusiness.com/501689-sweet-tooth

The spokeswoman said that Danone had learnt its lesson from the commercial failure of thelight version of its Danette CREAM DESSERT brand which contained ...
www.just-food.com/article.aspx?ID=96866

Danonino, a fresh cheese for young children, the DAIRY DESSERT Danette, ...
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3301/is_/ai_n17114257

Danette has a 64.5% share of the DESSERT CREAM market, which represents a ...
www.faqs.org/.../FRANCE-DANONES-TAILLEFINE-PAUSE-SAVEUR-FRA...

Danone’s history. of innovation stretches back 30 years. One. of its most successful products is Danette. — a fresh DAIRY DESSERT. ...
secure.financialmail.co.za/report/france/france10-11.pdf