We're near the months when shipping chocolate gets a little tricky (click here to see how we handle this), so now's the right time to (re)stock before it gets hot in your neck of the woods!
Place your order now and take 10% off all our chocolates with the code CHOC. Our selection includes gourmet chocolate bars by Bovetti, Côte d'Or, and Comptoir du Cacao; Chevaliers d'Argouges chocolate tuiles; Mathez chocolate truffles; Suchard rochers; Nestlé Dessert baking chocolate (finally back in stock); and much, much more...
Enjoy the favors. Take good care of yourself.
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, , Nina's Paris loose leaf tea in pretty tins, Maffren fruit and pastry-shaped marzipan, Léonard Parli mini calissons, Comptoir du Cacao Dubai chocolate, 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.
In New York, the MoMA presents the Marcel Duchamp exhibition. Through August 22.
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 our recipe for Reine de Saba chocolate cake
There's no resisting an iconic chocolate cake craving, right?
Ingredients (serves 6)
125 g (4.4 oz) baking chocolate
100 g (7 Tbsp) soft butter
3 eggs
75 g (2.6 oz) grounds almonds
50 g (1.8 oz) all-purpose flour
1 pouch vanilla sugar
icing
50 g (1.8 oz) baking chocolate
1 Tbsp water
1 tsp confectioners sugar
Directions
Heat 125 g baking chocolate with 2 Tbsp water (in double boiler or microwave oven). Set aside when melted.
In a bowl, stir soft butter until it becomes creamy. Add in melted chocolate and mix well. Add in egg yolks one by one, then sugar, ground almonds, and vanilla sugar. Add in flour and mix well.
Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).
Whip egg whites stiff with a pinch of salt. Incorporate in the mixture delicately.
Pour mixture in a cake tray, buttered and slightly dusted with flour.
Bake 35 minutes. Let cool before removing from tray.
30 minutes before serving the cake heat 50 g baking chocolate with confectioners sugar and water. When the mixture is smooth pour on the cake and spread all over.
Serve with scoops of vanilla ice cream.