Paris: Desserts and Crepes

At the Galeries Lafayette, I bought a few little desserts to bring home and photograph, and then eat. I couldn't remember the name of this gem, but it was a layered slice of sponge cake, cream, jam, and gel, topped with a meringue and fresh berries. The cake part had a strawberry flavor and was very light and airy.
Ah, the eclairs.
This one was a chocolate eclair, filled with pastry cream. topped with chocolate ganache, squares of chocolate, and gold dust.
This one was a salted milk-jam (or dulce de leche) caramel eclair, filled with pastry cream and topped with salted caramel, something chocolate-y for crunch, and gold flakes.
Macarons... The light and airy, marshmellow-y small bites of heaven that can only be perfected in France. I got two chocolate, one vanilla, and one raspberry macaron.
We had also stopped by a local bakery to round out our French dessert tasting menu with a chocolate tart (a stiff shell filled with thick chocolate),
an Opera (a chocolate-mocha layered sponge cake with cream and chocolate on top),
a mille-fuille (literally "a thousand layers," but really it's usually only a few dozen layers of puff pastry, filled with pastry cream and topped with a thick white sugar icing and drizzled with chocolate),
and a bag of madaleines, a light, lemony-vanilla cake that is made in a shell-shaped pan. These were a perfect middle-ground between a cupcake and a muffin. 

Sophie took us out for crepes, and we started with a galette, essentially a crepe made with buckwheat flour and served savory, with cheese and vegetables.
For dessert, we shared a sweet crepe, made with white flour and topped with vanilla ice cream, pears, almonds, and whipped cream.
More to come!


À bientôt!

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Unknown said…
Everything looks yummy
September 5, 2016 at 3:21 PM
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