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| My patisserie challenge Easter special |
Happy Easter to you all and
welcome to my patisserie challenge. This year I have decided to buy something
different from our village boulangerie
every Sunday and to enjoy the simple pleasure of treating myself each week.
Easter is a time of year when sweet treats are aplenty and in a village boulangerie/patisserie that also makes it’s own chocolate I was spoiled for
choice today. Thankfully Easter also marks the time of year when the garden is
awakening and there is plenty to do outside, so my excess calories from the Nid
de Pâques (Easter nest) and the dark
chocolate bell, filled with more chocolates, were nicely balanced out by a day
of hard work, including a good few hours walking with the lawnmower. Mmm,
patisseries, chocolate and gardening - that really is my idea of a perfect day.
The Nid de Pâques is a small circular cake with two layers of light,
moist Genoese sponge, filled and topped with an airy chocolate mousse (I could
have chosen coffee or praline flavour, but chocolate rules in my book) and decorated
with toasted almonds on the side and sweet eggs on top. It was lovely. The
almonds gave a tasty crunch and I really couldn’t fault the light texture of
the sponge or the deliciousness of the creamy chocolate mousse. It’s a shame Easter
only comes around once a year.
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| Easter bells |
In France, although there are
plenty of bunnies to be seen at Easter, tradition has it that the church bells
are the ones to give out the chocolate eggs to the children. The bells fall
silent on Maundy Thursday as they fly to Rome, returning on Easter Sunday with
eggs for all. I’m not sure our old church bell takes part anymore as I
definitely heard it dinging it’s slightly flat Angelus on Saturday.
Don’t forget to join me next week
to see my next choice from Bernadette at the boulangerie.
Here are my previous patisserie
challenge posts, in case you missed them:
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