Mouthful Monday

 

One bite of this XXL profiterole was pastry Valhalla. 

Below: the unfolding drama of that chocolate pour

 

 

My First Easter Egg

 photo: Cordon Bleu 

Still time

- My First Easter Egg -

Create chocolate Easter eggs w/your child / grandchild

in Paris

 Saturday March 30, 2024 - 2 1/2 hrs

Le Cordon Bleu

 

Chocoween

Halloween-themed chocolate sculptures in a Saint Germain shop window.

Patrick Roger
108 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75006

Le chocolat

Chocolate in Paris: a sweet obsession.

February newsletter
Nouveautés

Bark with bite

Looking back on the holidays there was much activity in our small Paris kitchen.

Above: candied ginger, sea salt, pistachio, hazelnut, almond, fennel seed dark chocolate bark; milk chocolate bark w/sea salt, sesame seeds, fennel seeds and Lapsang souchong (smoked) tea leaves

 

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Some of the sweeter highlights:

 

Several varieties of homemade chocolate bark were paired with after-dinner espresso or turned into gifts.

Vanillekipferl, Austrian hazelnut vanilla butter crescents (below), a family recipe, disappeared as fast as I could make them.

 

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French chocolate: what makes it so good
February newsletter

Scary chocolate

Enormous and small pumpkin sculptures made of chocolate.

Patrick Roger
artiste-chocolatier

Meilleur Ouvrier de France

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- Happy Halloween 2018 -

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La Toussaint: All Saints' Day 

1st November

Between the sheets

A tiny chocolate shop sells sheets of chocolate in over a dozen varieties by the kilo.

Above: spicy piment d'espelette, candied violets, hazelnuts, walnuts, white and dark chocolates

L'Atelier du Chocolat
109 rue Saint-Antoine Paris 75004.

Le Saint-Valentin

As every year, Paris chocolatiers big and small proudly display their Valentine's Day creations.

 

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