In the set, there are my favourite 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) , Shortbread linzer (chocolate and spiced biscuit filled with jam), Spiced bredele, Florentins (biscuits with almonds, crystallized orange and lemon barks), Stollen (Christmas fruit bread with almond paste), Spitzbueben (filled biscuits with jam) and Berawecka (Christmas fruit and nuts bread).
Tag Archives: sweets
Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
Wonderful and delicious Christmas pastries in 2020
Parisian pastries 2/2
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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 … Continue reading
Parisian pastries 1/2
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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 … Continue reading
Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
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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 … Continue reading
Easter sweets 2019
Favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France
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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 … Continue reading
Alsatian Christmas pastries
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Homemade Alsatian Christmas bredele (Étoiles à la cannelle, Linzer…).
A gourmet Christmas in Alsace
Wonderful and delicious Christmas pastries (2018)
Easter sweets
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The teddy bear in milk chocolate, the pinapple in dark chocolate and the bunny in white chocolate are from the French pastry Karamel Paris. The funny bunny with yellow glasses in dark chocolate is a creation of the French pastry … Continue reading
Easter sweets 2018
Delicious homemade pastries for Christmas
Christmas 2017 sweets
Celebrating Christmas with marvellous pastries (2017)
Delicious Advent calendars
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Advent calendars to drink : Advent calendars to degust : Photo sources : sortiraparis.com, cosmopolitan.com, iletaitunefoislapatisserie.com, chocoladdict.com, odelices.com, kissmychef.com, parisianavores.paris, vanityfair.fr, doctissimo.fr, 30ansoupresque.com, femina.fr and arts-et-gastronomie.com.
Easter sweets 2017
The American painter Will Cotton
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Will Cotton (born in 1965) is an American painter whose favourite subjects are sugar (candies, pastries…) and female nudes. Besides painting (oil on linen), he draws and sculpts. He creates surrealistic landscapes teeming with candies and pastries.
Halloween sweets
Easter in Wonderland
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 website : http://www.leclosdelaure.com/
I found these products at the “maison Castro” in Paris.