Mad About Macarons - How to Eat Like the French: a French food blog in Paris of healthy recipes, Paris tearoom and patisserie local guides, lifestyle and gourmet French travel.
How to find the best hot chocolate in Paris, a local guide to famous tearooms to those popular with the local Parisians.
Easy chocolate sauce recipe made with milk, cream, chocolate and a touch of vanilla.
Easy chocolate crêpes recipe, a classic 'crêpe au chocolat' served just like in French restaurants with a luscious dark chocolate sauce.
How to make an authentic homemade chocolat chaud, just like the ones we enjoy in Paris.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Chocolate Pastry Tour, Jill Colonna's series of day trips near Paris, tasting the best bakeries' specialities
French Pâte sucrée is the best all-round sweet pastry dough for tarts.
Recipe for the classic French galette des rois served around Epiphany in France, with a chocolate and pistachio twist.
Easy recipe for French crêpes, best eaten for breakfast or for goûter (teatime) with sugar and lemon or with any of the classic toppings like jam, chestnut or chocolate spread, or salted caramel sauce.
A light, no-bake recipe for German Chocolate Cream Desserts, inspired by Germany's Black Forest chocolate cherry cakes with a basic French crème au chocolat topped with Chantilly cream and cherries.
French mendiants, chocolate disks traditionally topped with dried fruits and nuts, resembling the 4 monastic robes from the Middle Ages, seen in chocolate shops around France
A French classic dessert with no cream: a light yet intensely bittersweet dark chocolate mousse for serious chocolate lovers who love their chocolate rich and airy.
Light French chocolate mousse with passion fruit, topped with a caramel nougatine for an easy make-ahead dinner party dessert
Homemade dark chocolate granola with coconut, brazil nuts, cranberries and sesame seeds with no added sugar, just natural ingredients to sweeten this luxury start to the day, stuck together with the best melted chocolate.
A French celebratory, gluten free moist chocolate and almond cake, made extra special with a hint of Grand Marnier and topped with a festive glaze.
Cracked chocolate macarons? Make these easy Black Forest creams with Kirsch-soaked macaron shells topped with roasted cherries and Kirsch Chantilly cream.
A triple chocolate bunny cake that's great for Easter, birthdays or baby showers.
An easy chocolate oat crumble that's a great compromise for a family dessert with fruit - the ultimate comfort-food with extra dark chocolate and lower in gluten than the classic crumble.
The Classic Parisian dessert of a poached pear, vanilla ice cream and thick French chocolate sauce was invented by legendary chef, Auguste Escoffier, after hearing the French soprano, Hortense Schneider, sing the title role in Offenbach's Belle-Hélène.