One of the most beautiful desserts I’ve seen and tasted. More pictures form Le Pré Catelan will follow…

Fassi, or Palazzo del Freddo is one of the oldest gelaterias in Italy (last year it turned 130 ). The only shop in Rome is still owned by the founder’s family. It seems that time has stopped at Palazzo del Freddo-the simple, cantine like decor makes you travel to the middle of…

“Black forest” cake at La Pâtisserie des rêves 111 rue de Longchamp, Paris. I don’t know how they managed to put the classic “Black Forest” cake (layers of chocolate cake, maraschino cherries and whipped cream) into a crunchy chocolate cherry, but I must say I have never seen such an…

Café Pushkin at Printemps department store is the most exciting thing that happened to the Parisian pastry scene since Pierre Hermé started selling his rose macarons. It’s is a spin-off of the same name pastry shop in Moscow and I suppose it is directly connected with the famous Pushkin café.…

…La Pâtisserie des Rêves , the recently opened Phillippe Continici pastry shop in the 7th. As L’Express Styles magazine mentioned in November, “la pâtisserie surcréative” is out, while “les gâteaux classiques” are in. Will La Pâtisserie des Rêves dethrone the French pastry king Pierre Hermé? (the man who dared to…

Here is a recipe of strawberry trifle that is fresh, refreshing and very fast to make. And as I am not a big cook and almost never cook I love effortless recipes 🙂 I was inspired by a recipe I found online but made quite a few changes. Instead of…

The most famous pastry chef in the world did it again. This time Pierre Herme married potatoes with lemon confit, saffron jelly, sweetcorns and pieces of potatoes cooked with saffron juice for one of his “émotion extravagant” (available since last December). I liked the lemony taste with saffron twist, but…

What can be more fashionable than cakes created “in the style of the world’s finest designers”? This is what London Berkeley’s afternoon tea time “Prêt-à-portea” is about. “Balenciaga vanilla and blueberry chequered bavarois”, “Chanel stars and stripes strawberry and vanilla pannacotta” or “Lanvin purple macaroon with raspberry ganache”. I love…

Last holiday season, Pierre Hermé invented macarons with foie gras. This year the pastry king presents two new macarons – with black truffles and with 25-year-old balsamic vinegar of Modena. What is most surprising though is the price of these small treasures. Each macaron (small size) costs 8 €. I…

Christophe Adam of Fauchon continues his “club cake” tradition and this autumn he proposes the classical “forêt noir” cake in a not so classical form. I love this cake so much that last week, despite all the strikes, I went to Fauchon (place de la Madeleine) three times just for…