Today’s challenge as part of the Edible Advent Calendar:
Can you name this treat?
Leave your answer (product and location) in the comments section below. Hint: this is the only repeat (return to a a shop we’ve seen before) in the series. The reader who has accumulated the most victories by December 24 will receive an edible Christmas present from me. I’ll keep your guesses hidden until the answer is revealed tomorrow on Budget Travel, then I’ll publish the comments and name the winner for this challenge.
YESTERDAY’S WINNERS: The image of Brigitte Bardot on a Fauchon eclair delighted some and repulsed many. Points to Janet, Zeva Bellel, Lil, Loulou, Sophie, Jamie Samons, Kelaine, Karin and Christopher for identifying the slinky starlet. The full description can be found on the Budget Travel Paris Page.
Millefeuille by Jacques Genin.
No octopus tentacles or forked tongues. :)
Yes, I can name this treat because of your lovely hint. Thank you. :)
A little research tells me that this is the le mille-feuille du dimanche from the Pâtisserie des Rêves (http://www.lapatisseriedesreves.com/) the same place where the brioche de rêves came from on the December 14 edition of Edible Advent. I visited the Budget Travel site as well as your site Paris Daily Porn to solve this one(http://parisdailyporn.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/brioche-des-reves/)!
It looks nummy.
Thanks for the reminder, too, that you had written up about the BB eclair on the Budget Travel site! That is, in fact, where I had *first* read about it and I remembered this when I clicked on the link you posted here to read the article again.
I am going to be one to still defend the treat, even though it was “dissed” by a few folks in comments. It’s kitsch! It’s fun! ‘Course this is coming from a girl who thought, before she became gluten intolerant, that Twinkies were pretty cool. Heh. So yeah, I probably would think that BB in all her glory is a fun thing. To each his or her own, eh? ;-) (The only thing I realized on the down-side was that when you wrote 6€ converts to $9, I gasped and thought, “OMG, that’s right!” I don’t know if I could justify paying that much for an eclair with or without BB on it, lol. That’s kinda….. just *wrong* on some level. Ahhh. The French decadence of the 18th century lives on…)
Sorry too “blomment” (blog in your comments) but I have been having fun with this this morning as it gently snows once again in Paris. I got wordy as a result. ;-)
le mille feuilles by Jacques Génin , 133 rue de Turenne
ah ! revenir vite à Paris !
that is a luscious-looking jacques genin millefeuille. i want one.
Heavenly – vanilla millefeuille from Jacques Génin.
A contemporary version of a millefeuille, and I’m sure I’ve seen it before, but where? Ble Sucre, maybe?
Hey there,
I ran into your friend Sophie at l’avant comptoir. We were both scarfing down the atmosphere and food.
When all of this holiday madness has subsided, we should plan a croquettas outing together.
For today’s advent, I’m going with a millefeuille with vanilla-specked cream from Jacques Genin.
Hope you’re doing fabulously well.
Bises,
Z
Mille-feuille du Dimanche from Pâtisserie des rêves
Darnit! Missed the place! It looks *just* like the picture at the Pâtisserie des Rêves website. http://www.lapatisseriedesreves.com/
Ah well, they ALL look delish! ;-)