In France, you will never find yourself short of perfect desserts to end a good meal. The only thing you have to worry about is the calories.
1. Mille-feuille
Also known as a “Napoleon cake”, this elegant multi-layered crackly thin pastries sandwiched with delightful cream may just be the highlight of your dinner.
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It is made of two tiers of choux pastry filled with pastry cream with the smaller sized pastry sitting on the larger one.
3. Opera cake
If you are a coffee-addict, you will absolutely love this coffee-soaked cake heavily layered with coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache.
4. Macarons.
I don't think I have to tell you what these are. These tiny colourful bite-size treats will make you smile ear to ear!
Where to eat: Pierre Hermé macarons or Maison Ladurée macarons, Paris
5. Tarte Tatin
How do I put this... perhaps an upside down Fruit pie.
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6. Creme Brulee
An all time favorite French dessert perfect to end a good french dinner. Thin hard caramelized surface at the top and creamy soft custard below, this is the boom.
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7. Souffle
Soft, airy and heavenly! Perhaps the best of all is the Grand Marnier soufflé.
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8. Île flottante
The "Floating Island"-- An island of meringue floating on crème anglaise. It can also be called "eggs in snow".
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9. Clafoutis
A baked French dessert filled with black cherries (occasionally some other fruits).
10. Crêpes
Crêpe is a streets food in France. You may think that you've tried Crepes a million times before... but if you never try one in Paris, you've never tried one. Classic: beurre et sucre (butter and sugar).
11. Far Breton
It is similar to a Clafoutis, commonly made with prunes or raisins.
12. Ispahan
This is definitely one of those most beautiful desserts in the world. This delicate dessert is a startling combination of rose, raspberries and lychees, topped with a rose petal.
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13. Mont-Blanc
The dessert resembles a snow-capped mountain, more precisely, Mont. Blanc!
14. Baba au Rhum
Small cream-filled yeast cake saturated in rum. Savarin is another version, comes in a ring shape.
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15. Dacquoise
This cake consist of layers of almond and hazelnut meringue sandwiched with buttercream
16. and Gelato! Never forget the gelatos!
Thank You for Reading!
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3 comments:
Omg so frickin yummy! And works of art, certainly. I "had to" help buy and photograph many of these on my last Paris trip, toughest job ever ;)
Omg so frickin yummy! And works of art, certainly. I "had to" help buy and photograph many of these on my last Paris trip, toughest job ever ;)
I can imagine it, Suzette! Gonna do the exact same thing as you 1 month from now! Any other suggestions?
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