Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
Linzer, Lemon biscuits, Cinnamon stars (not homemade), Schwowebredele, Birewecke and Leckerlis. All pastries are homemade except cinnamon stars.
Easter chocolates in 2025 in Paris
Source : https://www.marieclaire.fr/cuisine/selection-plus-beaux-oeufs-paques-2025,1472231.asp
The Gerbeaud café in Budapest, Hungary (2016)
I ate the famous Palascinta (Hungarian sweet pancakes) at the Gerbeaud café in Budapest, in 2016. It is a pastry with a blend of several flavours (apricot, walnuts, vanilla and chocolate). The atmosphere and decoration are elegant, chic and timeless. In 1858, Henrik Kugler opened a café in Budapest ( József nádor Square). His shop…
Parisian pastries 2/2
The Flan pâtissier is a flan (an egg cream beaten with milk and baked in an oven) put on a short pastry. « Baba au rhum is a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked in a rum syrup. » The Amandine tart also called Bourdaloue tart is a creation…
Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
We made Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Cinnamon stars or Zimtsterne (soft cinnamon cakes recovered with icing sugar), Kouglof (Brioche with raisins and almonds, shaped in a special mould with a hole in the middle) , Spiced bredele, Florentins (biscuits with almonds, crystallized orange and lemon barks), Stollen (Christmas fruit bread with almond paste), Spitzbueben…
Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France
Cheese gougère, snails of bourgogne, wine of Bourgogne and mustard are my Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France. There are others specialities in Bourgogne like beef bourguignon (beef with wine, onions, bacon and mushrooms), wine rooster, truffle of bourgogne, Chablis wine, aligoté (wine), sauvignon, œuf en meurette (poached egg with red wine and bacon), marbled…
Favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France
Ginger bread, blackcurrant (fruit, jam, candies, cream, sirup…) and nonnettes (round small pastry with ginger bread, often with jam inside) are my favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France. There are other sweet specialities in Bourgogne like anise of Flavigny, gamblettes (small cakes with almond, ginger bread, peels, spices and candies fruits), cramaillotte (dandelion jelly with…
Alsatian Christmas pastries
Homemade Alsatian Christmas bredele (Étoiles à la cannelle, Linzer…).
A royal tea time with Marie-Antoinette at Nina’s in Paris
Nina’s was orginally a perfume distillery company founded in 1672 by Pierre Diaz. This firm was the supplier of fragrances for King Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles. The Queen Marie-Antoinette liked particulary the lavender and rose fragrances. Today, it is a tea room using the fruits from the King’s Kitchen Garden in Versailles.…
Delightful and ravishing pastries at Gilles Marchal
I discovered this beautiful and delicious pastry shop when i walked on the hill of Montmartre in Paris. The decoration and the pastries are very refined. The chandelier, the madeleine printed wallpaper and the door handle in the form of a madeleine are charming. The shop proposes French pastries (St Honoré, Mont-blanc, eclair…), biscuits (madeleine,…
An enchanting timeless breakfast at Angelina
I tasted the breakfast at the famous Tea house Angelina in Paris. Angelina was founded in 1903 by Antoine Rumpelmayer and the decoration was designed by the famous Belle Epoque architect Edouard-Jean Niermans. The decor is finely-worked and sophisticated with gildings, murals and mouldings, ledges, medaillons… It is an ravishing and timeless place. My favourite…
Sugar sweets with Mediterranean flavours
The French brand “Le clos de Laure” has assembled jam makers since 1998. These artisans create Provençal and Nice local gourmet products. I tasted the “Délice d’amande à la fleur d’oranger” (almond delight with orange blossom) and the “Confit de rose de Grasse” (candied Grasse rose). It is delicious and very flavoured ! The official…
