Parisien Pastries!

Sometimes a Parisien pastry looks like jewelry...
And sometimes a Parisien bracelet looks like pastry...
Sometimes a Parisien pastry looks like a work of art (more often than not)
And sometimes a Parisien artwork of food looks like I don't know what...
Sometimes looking at boxes of macarons makes you want to take out your paintbox...

And then you pray.

Sometimes a box of Parisien fraises/strawberries...

Looks just like a berry red pousette/baby stroller...

Or like a Parisien pup in a berry red coat...

There's no question...

That Parisiens...

Get their 3 - 5 (RED) fruits a day...

But are they getting them all in pastries is the question.

And does it matter?

BONJOUR PARISIEN PASTRIES!!

Neige aux Framboises

The French seem to have an almost insane addiction to the color RED (Calling Dr. Gabriel Byrne SVP!) They refuse to leave the house without some smidge of red showing. They eat their meat raw/a point. There are endless examples I could pull up to prove my theorie. To boot they insist on eating RED desserts year round.

To hell with Locavores!
Where French pastry chefs come up with this endless supply of fraise et framboise is beyond me other than a jam jar...
But come up with it they must or their goose is cooked.
There can be no doubt about this since you see it every patisserie vitrine.
Add to that their addiction to quatre fruits rouges.

Right! It isn't enough to have ONE red fruit in your dessert.

You must have FOUR! (cerises, groseilles, framboises et fraises)

I admit to being fond of confiture de quatre fruits rouges (merci Bonne Maman)

Well RED being such a Christmasy color I thought I'd show you some RED Paris petit fours...

Gerard Mulot has a thing with RED desserts that cannot be denied...

Or maybe I'm the one with the RED problem seeing RED where ever I look...

One red fruit dessert I cannot live without is Paille Framboise. Two glossy layers of a palmier-like cookie 'sandwich' a thick layer of raspberry jam. Then topped off with tell-tale confectionary sugar that makes you look like you were just out in the snow or else eating a paille framboise. This thing is impossible to eat discretely.

It's a fairly traditional pastry so you'll have to look in at your 'local' corner patissierie to find it. I've yet to see it in the fancier Paris joints.

Really you can't go wrong at Boulangerie Rollot. They've won all kinds of prizes and competed with la creme de la creme at the concours Meilleure Patissierie de France - no mean accomplishment indeed. And it's awfully nice to be served your snowy paille by the pastry chef's wife...

48, rue Madame 75006

Do you have a favorite RED dessert in Paris?
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BONJOUR NEIGE AUX FRAMBOISES!

PS Neige aux framboises is a dessert but since there's snow on the ground in Paris I thought I'd take a few liberties...

BOULANGERIE GOSSELIN

Sometimes the best thing you can do in Paris is take the wrong bus and get off at the wrong stop...
I thought I'd give you something to chew on over the week-end...
While shopping madly and wrapping gifts even more madly...
A little look at Boulangerie Gosselin...

There are 3 branches - one is at 258 Boulevard St Germain, 75007

And another at 28, Rue Caumartin, 75009 and 125, rue St.-Honore 75001 (merci Sweet Freak!)

Watch their delicious video here.

Oh why didn't I go inside and taste a slice of tarte au pomme or fige?

This is actually a neighborhood patisserie/boulangerie...

One you might never have heard of it...But everything looks...

Quite superior, including this lovely ganache gateaux au chocolat...

BEAR is always smitten with old fashioned giant meringues - miam

We WILL have to go back another time won't we for a taste!

BONJOUR BOULANGERIE GOSSELIN!

Bonne Week-End!