Yes, it will soon be time to celebrate and delight the mom(s) in your life. Do it in style with our Mother's Day Specials from France!
Our Mother's Day Specials features chocolates, confectionery, fruit jellies, fruit preserves and flower jellies, fruits and mini pastries in liqueur, teas, and cookies in charming boxes and tins.
We have also included lovely greeting cards, scented soaps, notebooks, home accents, and accessories to make her feel very special, the French way.
Spark joy!
Marianne Prébet
Founder & Gourmand-in-Chief
Just in: more French favorites
Among the French favorites recently added to our shelves you will find St Michel savory biscuits, André Laurent Cœur de Chou choucroute, Pierrot Gourmand Cocorico gummy candies in the shape of beloved French icons, Nina's Paris loose leaf tea in pretty tins, Maffren fruit and pastry-shaped marzipan, Léonard Parli mini calissons, and scrumptious Maison Colibri madeleines with chcolate shells.
If there is a French treat you would like to find on our website, please share your craving with us.
Suggestions for your French agenda
There is plenty of exciting French cultural events all around America. Enjoy your picks!
Chicago's Art Institute presents Matisse's Jazz: Rythms in Color. Through June 1.
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Manet & Morisot. Through July 5.
The Denver Art Museum presents The 19th Century in European and American Art.
L'Alliance New York presents its new film series, The Films of Sophie Letourneur. Through May 26.
In Washington, DC the National Gallery of Art presents Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris. Through August 30.
In Washington, DC Marc Chagall's magistral Orphée mosaic in on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art.
Try out Fossier's recipe for strawberry & biscuit rose charlotte
Delight mom with this spectacular pink cake!
Ingredients (serves 6)
24 biscuits roses
25g (2 Tbsp) sugar
75cl (3 cups) water
250g (9 oz) strawberries, cut in halves if large
250g (9 oz) heavy liquid cream
125g (4½ oz) fromage blanc (Greek yogurt is a good substitute)
1 pouch vanilla sugar
a few drops vanilla essence
Directions
Bring water and sugar to a boil. Add vanilla extract then let syrup cool. Moisten the non-sugary side of each biscuit in syrup. Line a 7-inch charlotte pan (including bottom) with biscuits, sugary sides in.
Whip heavy liquid cream with vanilla sugar then delicately incorporate fromage blanc (or Greek yogurt).
Pour about half of cream into pan, add half of strawberries and 4 biscuits. Pour other half of cream and top with strawberries.
Refrigerate for at least 12 hours before removing from pan and serving.