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French Dessert Menu

French dessert menu

 

French Desserts.

French food cannot be beaten from baguettes, sauces, cheeses, wine, and desserts.

The waiter brought out the dessert menu for us to drool over. But, because my friend wanted a dessert, I unbuttoned the top button of my pants to make room as I read the menu:

(Click on the French dessert names below to take you to a site with a photo and description of it.)

 

 

Photo source Philppe Blondiaux

Dessert of the day: Baba Rhum

 

 

 

Photo source and recipe La Popocotte de Manu

Iles Flottantes (one of my favorites)

 

 

Profiteroles

Profiteroles chocolat

 

My friend selected Profiteroles from the menu, then added,

"With two spoons, please."

Of course, I did not object.

 

 

https://www.frenchlavie.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/creme2520brulee.jpg

Photo and recipe Winchester Whisperer

Creme Brulee

 

 

Chocolate liegeois

Photo source and recipe at Go Pineapples.

 

Chocolat Liegeois

Cafe Liegeois

These two are the same… only the flavor is different.

 

 

Poached Pears

Photo by Teresa Kasprzycka at Dreamstime.

Recipe for Poire Belle Helene

 

 

Coupe Trois perfume means three balls of ice cream of varied flavors.

My favorite flavor is  Coconut.

 

Photo source and recipe at Verrines and Co.

Mystere. I have only had this dessert from the grocery store. But I found the recipe at Verrines and Co.

 

Some others…

Moelleux au Chocolat

Nougat Glace

Dame Blanche

 

What would you have had for dessert?

 

Please send me one of your favorite desserts your recipe, with a photo so I might post it on my blog

 

Comments

38 responses to “French Dessert Menu”

  1. Jackie

    Everything:)!
    jackie
    bliss farm antiques

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  2. Linda C.

    I felt stuffed just looking!
    Could never choose…

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  3. Jo

    Mmmmm…Poires Belle Helene!!!

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  4. Kelleyn

    I just gained 10 pounds. Devine!

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  5. Rhonda P.

    Creme Brulee is my all time favorite.

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  6. linda

    Yum!

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  7. Jenna

    Marry me. Oh wait you are already married, and so am I, such a pity we could have been happy and fat together. I want a bite of everything!

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  8. meredith

    I almost always get nougat glacé!

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  9. Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic

    Anything with CHOCOLATE is for me!! But I do love a well made creme brulee. Think I gained a few lbs. just licking my laptop screen. Gotta wipe off the drool on my keys, too. LOL!

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  10. Bev

    I misread this earlier and thought if I could have anything for dessert, it would probably be my mom’s homemade blackberry pie from SW Washington state. The berries there are smaller and sweeter than normal berries and are to DIE for. In fact, at our wedding my mother made 36 blackberry pies for the guests rather than the traditional cake. It is what I want to eat every day in heaven.

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  11. Lucy

    All of the above, one right after the other!

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  12. Just Plain Jane

    Lovely to contemplate.

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  13. Laurie SF

    One of each please….

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  14. Jillayne

    Creme Brulee or Iles Flottantes – one spoon!

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  15. Elizabeth Mackey

    For me it was always a tie with profiteroles and Poires belles Helene. While living in France, we decided to go on a quest for the best profiteroles, and we found them in this odd little pizza place in our village!! Those were the ones to beat.

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  16. Jackie

    Do they have any chocolate cake? haha!

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  17. Paulita

    Where’s the chocolate mousse? Always my favorite.

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  18. rosa

    how can you choose?????

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  19. Kathie B.

    “Life is uncertain, so eat dessert first”
    (as seen on a T-shirt)

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  20. Anne Gsolfot

    Creme Brule. Always.
    I’ve made it a point to always have dessert first. If there is any room left in my tummy, I’ll have a meal. If not, maybe I’ll have another dessert, please. Oh, and one spoon only, thank you.

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  21. Ida

    There’s nothing more delicious than creme brulee! or… a little bit of everything!

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  22. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    All I can say is, it’s a good thing I looked at all these right after having a nice big breakfast, or I would have drooled even more and killed my keyboard. yum.

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  23. Everton Terrace

    How cute that you think I could possibly pick just one. We were at a buffet for Thanksgiving and they had these little dessert plates on the end of the row so I walked over the dinner area and got myself a big plate and proceeded to fill it up. Figured since I didn’t eat any turkey it was okay.

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  24. Paula S In New Mexico

    Creme Brulee for me, please. I can feel my hips expanding as I type !!!

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  25. Amy Kortuem

    Oh wow. Oh my. I think my order would be more like TWO desserts, ONE spoon!
    French chocolate mousse, please.

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  26. roxane

    All those are blissful. I am drooling. I would have thought that you would have added the “Religieuse” au chocolat ou au cafe to your list though, due to your background! It is my favorite next to the ile flottante.

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  27. joanne nixon

    i am a dessert addict…i don’t know which is my favorite…could it be the profiteroles? the creme brulee? the poires? hmmmmm one of each please????

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  28. pauline

    one of each, please – maybe double on those pears 😉

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  29. Natalie Thiele

    Chocolat Liegeois and Cafe Liegeois. Not quite sure what they are (I got hung up on her blog drooling over the other desserts), but they certainly look heavenly.
    I am Mrs. Chocolate, but that creme brulee is really calling out to me.

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  30. herhimnbryn

    Creme brulee everytime!

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  31. Theresa

    I think I gained ten pounds just looking at those gorgeous yummy desserts! Creme Brulee I would have to choose. Or maybe what you had.

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  32. ellen cassilly

    Tarte Tatin SVP

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  33. Mia

    Corey, I have just finished my lunch and now you got me craving for dessert! Ah, what I’d give now for some authentic French peche melba! 🙂

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  34. Bramble

    First instinct would be profiteroles (and that picture did nothing to disuade me!) but when I got to the pears…oh my! I would like to try everything really and it has always puzzled me why some restaurant has not come up with a DESSERT tasting menu!
    I would be there TONIGHT!

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  35. Marie- Noelle

    “Verrine” chocolate-raspberry
    Hmmm… just writing it awakes my gustatory senses !!!

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  36. cathi

    One of each please! 🙂 xxoo

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  37. Brenda

    Works of art! …For the palette!

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  38. Margaret Sequeira

    ok catching up on my reading! anything with chocolate! The profiteroles are right up my alley – chocolate and coffee together – OH YES!

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