Raspberries

Yesterday I also bought some raspberries at the market. They were so sweet and would have been perfect to use when baking a cake... however I already ate them all. In the morning together with muesli and yoghurt.

We celebrated another birthday recently and for that one we had little individual raspberry tarts. Wonderful!



A while ago I also bought from the same bakery some chocolate mousse topped with raspberries. I liked the raspberries more than the mousse though.



While still on the subject of raspberries I have a picture from Ladurée where I had this lovely masterpiece. I cannot remember the name of it, but is was really very tasty! Soft but crunchy, if you know what I mean?!

Market day

These are some of the things that I found at the market today. They do not have that much to do with sweets, but I suppose the carrots could be used to bake a carrot cake, but that was not what I had planned for today...

Not quite what I expected...

Two weekends ago we did a lunch cruise on the Seine to celebrate a birthday. For dessert I chose the hot pear sabayon, which turned out to be like this...


It was not what I expected, but it was still alright... nothing I would need to order again though. When it came out it was too hot to eat and after I let it cool down, the texture turned a little funny... almost like when you chew a chewing gum for too long.

Also before lunch we celebrated with a little bit of cake, which I must say was pretty much one of the best strawberry cakes I have ever eaten. The crushed pistachio on top gave it a nice touch.

Cute

The other day I bought an apple tart and it was wrapped in such cute paper.



Only crunchy pastry and apples; simple and not too sweet, just amazing. Now when I think about it afterwards, maybe it was pears...

Montmartre...

no visit is complete without stopping to eat a crepe.



Mine was filled with pears, but I actually liked the one filled with banana better.

Delicatobollar

The visit to Ikea ended with Delicato bollar. Ja-a jag tycker faktiskt att dessa bollar "utan utgangsdatum" med E-ämnen och allt är delikata.

Lime pie

It was a busy weekend! This was Sunday's dessert after lunch bought from the bakery downstairs. Fabulous!

Simple... but oh so nice!

Strawberries and raspberries with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Florentin

This was my dessert after lunch today. It was nice and crunchy, but even though I like sweet things, it was maybe a little bit too sweet for my taste...

Macaroons

Since I now live in Paris, my first blog post just needs to be about macaroons!

So far I have tried a few different kinds, but my favourites come from Pierre Hermé. They taste absolutely amazing, especially the strawberry wasabi and the jasmin ones. Unfortunately when I took the photo, they were already in my belly...



The macaroons from Ladurée are also really good. Caramel with salted butter, no need to say more!



One question came to my mind... why do they always give you the macaroons in a little box? The little boxes are very pretty and also practical to store little things afterwards, but I did not really think they have a purpose to serve. Well, macaroons are very delicate and easily turn into mash... which I discovered today when I bought macaroons from Dalloyau in a plastic bag... they did not survive being dropped on the floor and bashed against in the metro...



Anyway, there was nothing wrong with the taste!