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Provence Cote Dazur Pastry Desserts Confections
French Canon
9 entries
FR.154.0001
Calissons d’Aix
Calissons d’Aix-en-Provence are one of France’s most refined confections—small, diamond-shaped sweet…
FR.154.0002
Frangipane Provençale aux Amandes
Frangipane in Provence takes on a distinctly southern character, enriched with the region’s exceptio…
FR.154.0003
Fruits Confits d’Apt
Apt, a small town in the Luberon, has been the world capital of candied fruit (fruits confits) since…
FR.154.0004
Navettes de Marseille
Les Navettes de Marseille are boat-shaped biscuits scented with orange flower water, baked for the F…
FR.154.0005
Nougat Noir de Provence
Nougat Noir—the dark nougat that symbolises evil in the Treize Desserts (counterpart to the white no…
FR.154.0006
Oreillettes Provençales
Oreillettes—literally ‘little ears’—are Provence’s Carnival fritters, paper-thin sheets of dough sce…
FR.154.0007
Pompe à l’Huile
The Pompe à l’Huile (also called fougasse d’Aigues, gibassier, or pompe de Noël) is the centrepiece …
FR.154.0008
Tarte au Citron de Menton
The Tarte au Citron de Menton celebrates the unique lemon of Menton—a town on the Italian border tha…
FR.154.0009
Tarte Tropézienne
La Tarte Tropézienne is the Côte d’Azur’s most famous modern pastry creation—a sugar-crusted brioche…