From Valentine's Day, we remember fiery declarations, flowers and sweets... Chocolates, pastries, sweets, love inspires again and again.
Once again this year, pastry chefs and chocolate makers deliver ever more seductive creations.
The goal?
Surprise and delight.
The quote from American journalist Harriet Van Horne could not express it better: “Cooking is like love, you enter it with abandon or not at all”.
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Tradition and seduction
On February 14, it is customary to offer chocolate to the loved one.
This is nothing out of the ordinary.
In Aztec times, chocolate was meant to enhance passion and amorous ecstasy.
Since then, things haven't changed much.
To say "I love you", the house of Fouquet combines chocolate and praline in two entwined faces, representing the silhouette of a heart.
On one side, we fall for a runny caramel with notes of raspberry, resting on a pistachio praline, on the other, we melt for a salted butter caramel, wrapped in an almond biscuit and a praline hazelnut.
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Chocolate lovers will also succumb to this heart-shaped creation from Maison Lenôtre.
On a crunchy chocolate biscuit base and a crispy layer of hazelnut praline feuillantine, we enjoy a creamy dark and milk chocolate, coated in a creamy dark chocolate mousse.
A dessert that will seduce the greediest.
Luxury, calm and voluptuousness
At the time of Valentine's Day, pastry chefs and chocolatiers compete in imagination.
And who says great occasion, says exceptional products.
To satisfy ambitious lovers, the talented Claire Heitzler combines the scents of rose and tangelolo, this citrus fruit close to pomelo, in a heart-shaped dessert.
For his part, Thibault Leroy, pastry chef at La Grande Épicerie de Paris, creates a generous puff pastry that he garnishes with vanilla pastry cream, crème brûlée and pieces of fondant crumble.
A decadent pastry combining technique and originality.
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For lovers wishing for an evening placed under the sign of luxury, certain boxes meet their expectations.
Maison Lafitte brings together two noble products in a pretty setting: a whole foie gras from the South-West and a champagne from Maison Gosset.
On the side of the prestigious Alléno & Rivoire house, we discover an exceptional box, composed of six “orange my love” clovers, six Sobatcha sticks, and three vanilla pods, the best-seller of the house.
What a way to spend an exceptional moment, in good company.