Fauchon - Paris
We went to Fauchon one afternoon to buy some pastries, and claimed a bench in the Jardin des Tuileries to try them out.
This tart was one of my favorites of the trip. I believe it was called Citron. It has a citron peel-flavored caramel, citron marshmallows, chocolate nougatine, and a chocolate crust. Four textures in a tart is pretty impressive, especially when they come together in such a wonderful citron-chocolate-caramel flavor. I really like that idea of the nougatine on top of the tart, as an immediate contrast to the filling, and a playful contrast to the bottom crust.
This was called Ravage. If I remember correctly, it had a milk chocolate mousse, caramel, raspberry cream, and little balls of biscuit interspersed throughout. Simple, but tasted great.
Caramel Madeleine and Cannele. The madeleine verged a little too close to butterscotch, but I liked how it was moister than most madeleines. The cannele was nicely crisp on the inside, but was too uncomfortably eggy inside for me.
Passion Fruit Macaron and Vanilla Macaron. While the texture was good — crisp and then meltingly light and smooth, but almost to a point of being cake-y by the end– the flavors were off. The passion fruit merely tasted sweet while the vanilla had way too strong of a vanilla flavor.
Here are some pictures taken of their display window… Ignore the glare.
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After the jump are pic’s of the insides of some pastries…
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