Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
Linzer, Lemon biscuits, Cinnamon stars (not homemade), Schwowebredele, Birewecke and Leckerlis. All pastries are homemade except cinnamon stars.
Favourite pastries in Paris
My top 3 : Pistachio and orange blossom tart (Jardin sucré), La ceriseraie (Pistachio and cherry) by Sébastien Gaudard and Maple sirup and chantilly (Pâtisserie Tapisserie) Photo sources : pastry shop websites, https://www.leshardis.com/2021/03/stohrer-la-plus-ancienne-patisserie-de-paris-nous-fait-toujours-rever/ and le tribunal des gâteaux
Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Brunsli
Brunsli (chocolate, almonds) i made with my mother, Loberon’s christmas wreath and Loberon’s cushion cover.
Alsatian pastries for Christmas : schwowebredele
Schwowebredele (cinnamom, lemon, orange and kirsch) my mother and i made.
Delicious Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Springerle
Springerle (anise) my mother and i made. It is an Alsatian pastry we eat during Christmas. The background is a tablecloth.
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…
Parisian pastries 1/2
Chouquettes are small choux pastries with pearl sugar. The choux pastry dated from the 16th century and was invented by the Italian Popelini who was the pastry cook of the French Queen Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589). In 1760, Jean Avice (French pastry cook of the head of state Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and at the head…
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 tea times in Paris 16
The white cups (Manoir tasse à café sans soucoupe) are from Villeroy & Boch. Besides, the background represents Paris and is from the Disney movie “The aristocats”. There are also Tchaï and Carette Trocadéro.
A gourmet and elegant Tea time near to the Tuileries at Sebastien Gaudard in Paris
Closed to the Tuileries, there is the wonderful and refined pastry and tea house “Sébastien Gaudard”. We can degust delicious traditional French pastries and savouring tea. Sébastien Godard is one of my favourite pastry chef in Paris. The decoration is classic and sophisticated. I tasted the savoring pastry “Mussipontain” (an almond passover with a vanilla…
A Japanese-French fusion Tea time at Sadaharu Aoki in Paris
Sadaharu Aoki is a reputed Japanese pastry maker. The Japanese flavours (black sesame, matcha…) add a Japanese touch to French pastries (eclairs, puff cakes, Opera…). My favourite pastry is the black sesame eclair. It is delicious! I tasted also the matcha puff cake and It was very tasty. Matcha is a traditional Japanese green tea…
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,…
