After foie gras, champagne and Christmas logs, it’s time for the galette des rois. Already on show in some bakeries and in full preparation for January 6, the date of the Epiphany, the galette des rois is a post-holiday custom that delights younger and outdated alike. Uncover with out additional delay our choice of galettes as stunning as they’re appetizing.
Peninsula Paris
The pastry cooks on the luxurious lodge Peninsula Paris have created not a galette, however a crown of kings. It’s brioche and made from a Viennese sourdough bread with Tahitian vanilla, with a coronary heart containing a vanilla almond cream and a roasted vanilla uncooked almond praline. Should you’re within the temper for it, don’t wait any longer, as a result of you must pre-order it.
Ladurée
Recognized for its macaroons, Ladurée unveils its galette des rois for the brand new 12 months. Removed from the standard codes of the galette, this delicacy created by Chef Julien Alvarez is impressed by a Basque cake. It’s a puff pastry with almond cream, pistachio and a contact of orange blossom. Its coronary heart is a half-baked with pistachio, almond cream and frangipane with a creamy praline. The entire is surrounded by flaky brioche, sprinkled with pistachio chips. So aesthetic that one might hesitate to eat it…
Prince of Wales
The Marriott group’s galette is impressed by house and constellations. Designed with a caramelized puff pastry, it’s coated with a royal icing with a coronary heart of almond and pastry cream, scented with orange blossom. It is going to put stars in your eyes (…and in your abdomen).
Shangri-La Paris x Persée Paris
As flowery as it’s elegant, this cake imagined by Maxence Barbot doesn’t even have to be lower. One petal is equal to 1 slice. Sensible for the distribution. Its caramelized puff pastry petals embody a rum-infused almond and tonka bean frangipane and are coated with pink praline, for much more realism. The beans, made from pink quartz, are created by the French jeweler Persée Paris. The benefit? Numbered from 1 to 100, they’ll will let you win a gold bracelet or a diamond ring. A double reward after Christmas.
Dior
The Parisian Couture Home unveils its very first galette des rois, signed by chef Jean Imbert, winner of Prime Chef in 2013, and pastry chef Romuald Bizart, officiating on the new Dior restaurant-patisserie on the legendary deal with at 30-32 avenue Montaigne, just lately reopened. In homage to the emblematic creator, whose fortunate attraction was a star, the frangipane is roofed with a chocolate design within the form of a compass rose, an iconic image of the Home. On the coronary heart of the frangipane is a ceramic bean additionally adorned with the compass rose. Come and style it within the retailer’s café at 30 avenue Montaigne or take it away to eat with your loved ones.
Cheval Blanc Paris
Referred to as the Douillette, this apple galette is impressed by the spirit of a douillon, a Norman specialty, and is the signature dessert of Maxime Frédéric, of the Michelin-starred Cheval Blanc Paris restaurant. It’s composed of a caramelized puff pastry, a skinny layer of frangipane, Norman apples that soften within the mouth and blond grapes. It’s out there by reservation solely, till January 8.
The Home of Chocolate
Nicolas Cloiseau, the finest chocolate maker in France, unveils his newest citrus and hazelnut chocolate creation. This sunny galette with pure butter puff pastry is coated with hazelnut cream, with a zest of candied yellow lemon and a darkish chocolate ganache. It’s properly surrounded by a chocolate crown and adorned with dried fruits and roasted hazelnuts.
Pierre Hermé
The well-known Maison Pierre Hermé presents a galette with a beneficiant, golden and crispy puff pastry, sprinkled with items of caramel. Within the galettes supplied, 11 fashions of beans are golden or silver ceramic palets. The silver model provides the appropriate to a silver coin signed by La Monnaie de Paris. The golden model with a fleur de sel sample permits to win a gold coin.
Jeffrey Cagnes
Pastry chef Jeffrey Cagnes presents this 12 months’s buttery, rum-spiked frangipane with a basic crispy puff pastry. The entire thing is dusted with a brick-shaped snow sugar glaze. It’s out there till January 29.
Bakba Zana x Van Den Abeele
This isn’t a galette des rois, however a babka des rois. Impressed by the Polish cake, this spiral pastry of twisted brioche dough is sprinkled with bergamot zest, hazelnut frangipane and bergamot custard, roasted hazelnuts on a buttery and fluffy brioche base. Among the many beans positioned inside, the luckiest ones will have the ability to uncover considered one of them in 18-carat gold with diamonds and valuable stones, signed by the Van Den Abeele jeweler.
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