Les Spécialités Pâtissières de Paris- Nathalie Reddy by Adhara Reddy

Le Macaron

ar255 — 2024-02-01 18:54:43 UTC

Macarons are meringue based cookies that have sweet icing in between. It is usually made with egg whites, almond meal, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar. It is a delicate dish to make because it takes many years to perfect making a macron.

Le Paris- Brest

ar255 — 2024-02-01 18:58:24 UTC

Le Paris-Brest is a pastry shaped in a ring formation. It has a crisp, almond crust which is filled with praline crème mousseline (vanilla cream with praline).

Le Saint-Honore

ar255 — 2024-02-01 19:03:06 UTC

Le Saint-Honore is a flake pastry in the shape of choux balls. It also has velvety cream inside it. Le Saint-Honore tastes like a vanilla cake.

La tarte Bourdaloue

ar255 — 2024-02-01 19:05:36 UTC

La tarte Bourdaloue is a pear pie. The pears are sliced thinly and placed as a whole in the pie. The pears form a flower-like shape.

Le millefeuille

ar255 — 2024-02-01 19:11:44 UTC

Le millefeuille is a puffed pastry with anywhere from 729- 2,048 layers! The flavor of the pastry is quite simple, but the texture is supposed to be one of a kind. It also has a crème pâtissière (cream filling) in between the main layers. Even though there are thousands of layers, most millefeuille have 2-3 main layers. They also have a design of icing on the top of it. Some millefeuille just have powdered sugar on top.

L'opera

ar255 — 2024-02-01 19:15:34 UTC

L'opera is a simple french cake that has the main ingredients of coffee and cream. It is not the same as tiramisu because l'opera uses a light almond sponge cake. The sponge cake is soaked in coffee syrup and layered with ganache. It is then covered in chocolate glaze.

La Galette des Rois

ar255 — 2024-02-02 03:37:01 UTC

La Galette des Rois is also known as the King's Cake. It's made like a normal cake however there is nutmeg in it so it takes like a cinnamon roll.

La Religieuse

ar255 — 2024-02-02 03:40:26 UTC

It is a small choux pastry that is stacked on top of each other. Inside there is crème pâtissière which is usually flavored as mocha or chocolate.

My Opinion

ar255 — 2024-02-02 03:46:46 UTC

Honestly, I would love to eat all of these. There are many similarities in french deserts like, most of these dishes have a sweet cream in between either pastries, cookies, or cake. However, If I had to choose one I would want to eat Le millefeuille because I feel like it combines a lot of french dishes into one. The layers of the pastry remind me of a croissant, and the creme reminds me of a lot of french desserts like les macarons, les Paris-Brests, les Saint-Honores, and les religieuses.