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    Home โ€ข Recipes โ€ข French Desserts

    French Desserts

    • sweet pastry dough or pate sucree for a tart, pricking with a fork for even baking
      Pรขte Sucrรฉe - Sweet Pastry for Tarts
    • honey parfaits on shortbread with raspberries and a macaron
      Cranachan Parfait - A French Twist to the Scottish Dessert
    • high raised round buttery biscuits with a rough texture with air-holes
      French Butter Cookies (Palets Bretons)
    • glazed chocolate coffee cakes, extra fudgy served with a cup of coffee
      Easy Chocolate Coffee Cakes
    • large apple cake showing moist inside with a slice removed, topped with a shiny glaze on a plate next to apples
      French Apple Cake - Joรซl Robuchon's Recipe
    • galette des rois French puff pastry almond cake glazed and decorated with a paper crown
      Traditional Galette des Rois Recipe
    • baked orange cheesecake topped with mango coulis
      Orange Cheesecake: Easy Baked Recipe that's Fresh and Zesty
    • upside down caramelised apple tart glistening on a glass plate
      Tarte Tatin Recipe
    • chestnut ice cream log filled with candied chestnuts, orange and topped with toasted meringue
      Ice Cream Yule Log (Bรปche de Noรซl Glacรฉe)
    • chocolate disks topped with dried fruits and nuts
      Mendiants (French Chocolate Disks)
    • pears sitting in an almond tart
      Pear Almond Tart (Tarte Bourdaloue)
    • Round toasted custard tart with apples topped with an edible flower
      French Apple Custard Tart (Tarte Alsacienne aux Pommes)
    • round chocolate cake topped with sliced golden pears
      Chocolate Pear Cake - Moist with Low Sugar
    • fondant slice of moist chocolate cake, topped with a little icing sugar next to a bowl of oranges
      Chocolate Beetroot Cake (Fondant Chocolat-Betterave)
    • spoonful showing perfect texture of a chocolate mousse using 100 percent cacao
      Pure 100% Cacao Chocolate Mousse Recipe by Patrice Chapon
    • Bavarian cream recipe steps with blueberries and lemon
      Blueberry Bavarois - A Bavarian Cream Recipe with Lemon
    • round thin tart topped with thinly sliced spiral of apples
      French Apple Tart with Puff Pastry (Tarte fine aux pommes)
    • fresh peach and nectarine slices arranged on puff pastry and an almond paste
      Easiest Peach Tart Recipe with Puff Pastry
    • roasted fresh figs in a baking dish with honey and port
      Roasted Figs with Honey and Port
    • simple fig tart made with puff pastry with sliced fresh figs on an almond and honey mixture and topped with flaked almonds
      French Fig Tart with Almonds and Honey
    • mango cream dessert made with fresh mangos, whipped cream, coconut milk, vanilla and lime
      Mango Cream Recipe - Like a Mousse without Eggs or Sugar
    • slice of French blueberry tart, baked in the oven with a crisp pรขte sucrรฉe pastry and dusted with powdered sugar
      French Blueberry Tart - The Easiest Recipe
    • glass dessert dish of creamy pistachio panna cotta topped with a strawberry coulis
      Strawberry Panna Cotta with Pistachio
    • bowl of chunky apple compote, with a spoonful showing the specks of vanilla in it
      Easy Apple Sauce Recipe (French Apple Compote)
    • apple compote sandwiched with oat crumble as a cake
      French Apple Crumble Cake
    • cup of lemon ice cream with strawberries
      Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • slice of chocolate plate with eiffel tower served with a thin custard sauce
      Crรจme Anglaise with Chai Tea (Thin French Custard)
    • fudgy chocolate cake sliced open with chocolate macaron on top
      French Chocolate Cake (Fondant au Chocolat)
    • plate of gooey gluten free brownies made with almond flour and melted chocolate, topped with almonds
      Gluten Free Brownies - Fudgiest Ever
    • spoon into a runny centre dark chocolate cake
      Lava Cakes (Moelleux au Chocolat)
    • elegant dessert plate with half a poached pear sitting in a puddle of vanilla and coffee syrup with chocolate macarons
      Vanilla Poached Pears - Be Bold with Coffee
    • scoops of light chestnut coloured ice cream topped with candied chestnuts
      Chestnut Vanilla Ice Cream (Glace aux Marrons)
    • black forest chocolate cherry cream with macarons
      No Bake Chocolate Puddings (crรจme au chocolat)
    • baked peach without skin and stuffed with a mixture of amaretti or almonds and raspberries
      Baked Peaches (with Amaretti)
    • large pink macaron with pastry cream with a border of raspberries
      Passion Fruit and Raspberry Macaron Filling
    • 2 white meringue halves stuck together with cream to look like a melting snowball cake
      French Meringue Filled Snowballs
    • deep pink cherry chocolate macarons with stalks as decor
      Chocolate Cherry Ganache Macaron Filling
    • caramel pineapple rice pudding
      Caramelised Pineapple Rice Pudding (Riz Condรฉ)
    • rhubarb and custard cheesecake, decorated with rhubarb chips and strawberries
      Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake
    • French layered chocolate cake, showing the moist inside layers
      Patrick Roger's Layered Chocolate Cake
    • glazed upside down almond tart with strawberries
      Strawberry Almond Tart - How to Turn it into a French Cake
    • bowl of pistachio ice cream with flecks of vanilla and surrounded by pistachio shells
      Pistachio Ice Cream (with or without Wasabi)

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