noun, masculine/vaʃ.ʁɛ̃/plural: vacherins
vacherin (a soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland); vacherin (a cake-shaped dessert made of an almond paste shell filled with (non-frozen) double cream and topped with whipped cream); ellipsis of vacherin glacé
Borrowed from Franco-Provençal [Term?]. The dessert was likely named for its resemblance to the round shape of vacherin cheese wheels.