While you can find thin pancakes throughout Europe, crepes are perhaps most associated with France. There are two kinds of French crepe recipes – a buckwheat variety for savory fillings, and a plain flour kind, for sweet fillings. We love both, but if you’re writing a blog devoted to sweets, it’s best to focus on … Read more
This chocolate diamond cookie is the queen of French cookie recipes, giving its more famous sisters, the madeleine and the macaron, a run for their money. About French Cookie Recipes While French dessert recipes are legendary, French culture is not known for its cookies. Friends in France, in fact, complain about the dearth of decent … Read more
This rolled chestnut cake recipe is the perfect festive winter treat, highlighting the decadent flavor of French Crème de Marrons. Wintry Chestnut Treats When we lived in Paris as teenagers, chestnuts abounded. In the winter, you could buy a paper cone full of roasted chestnuts on street corners to warm your fingers as you walked … Read more