This year, frangipane may taste bitter.
Between the soaring prices of electricity (+ 30%) and raw materials, especially eggs due to the avian flu, the star pastry of January saw its prices increase on most bakery stalls and supermarkets .
The 6-part Carrefour cake will therefore cost 7.98 euros, or about 1 euro more than last year.
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For the Parisian, Houdhaïfa Bouhafs, ex-pastry chef at Philippe Conticini with 20,000 subscribers on Instagram, took up the challenge of making a galette des rois for less than five euros.
"At home, you can be satisfied with low-end products, it can very well do it," he explains.
The only exception: butter.
To make homemade puff pastry, using "quality butter" is essential.
Watch its simplified version of the Galette des Rois for less than five euros in the video at the top of the article.