Spring is in the air at La Maison du Chocolat. Chef Nicolas Cloiseau’s beautifully handcrafted Easter chocolate collection features a field of chocolate daisies soaking up the sun! In this latest holiday creation, Chef Cloiseau has imagined a world where flowers bloom from Easter eggs. He draws luminous petals, sculpts arms waving in mid-air, paints lips bright red, and trims … Continue reading La Maison du Chocolat: A family of Easter daisies
At Maison Dalloyau the spotlight is on the 2015 holiday dessert collection, beautifully photographed by Studio Harcourt in Paris. Founded in 1934 by Cosette Harcourt and brothers Jacques and Jean Lacroix, the legendary Paris photography studio is known for its glamorous black and white portraits of celebrities and high society figures. And now a renowned … Continue reading Maison Dalloyau: Spotlight on Christmas
A la Mère de Famille‘s Easter collection features a chocolate hen that’s all dressed up for the occasion, with her edible cape, hat and handbag. Decked out in a houndstooth cape, “Poule pied d’poule,” designed by Chef Julien Merceron, is made of 65 per cent dark chocolate (or 36 per cent milk chocolate). The accessories, face and feet are … Continue reading A la Mère de Famille: Chocolate fashion
Paris pastry chef Sébastien Gaudard, whose vintage-style Pâtisserie des Martyrs is known for classic French pastries, cakes and chocolates, has put together a traditional collection of French Easter goodies: chocolate Easter bells, hens, eggs and fish, and chocolate mousse desserts and sponge cakes. His beautifully handcrafted winged chocolate bells are made of 68 per cent single origin Ghanaian dark chocolate … Continue reading Sébastien Gaudard: Easter bells and chocolate fish
This striking chocolate cuckoo clock from Maison Dalloyau in Paris is made of 72 per cent Madagascar dark chocolate (roof/perch/base) and 43 per cent Madagascar milk chocolate (egg). “Pâques au balcon,” as the piece is called, comes in two sizes, 18.5 cm and 70 cm, and is filled with Easter fritures, or small chocolate fishes. The bigger version is available in … Continue reading Dalloyau: A chocolate cuckoo clock
Chocolatier Jean-Charles Rochoux‘s regal-looking chocolate egg harks back to Easter traditions of yesteryear. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) used to distribute gold-leaf-painted eggs among his courtisans and servants at Easter. Louis XIV was known to be very fond of chocolate, and under his reign, it became very popular at the Court. Jean-Charles Rochoux’s gold-leaf-painted chocolate egg is available … Continue reading A chocolate egg fit for a king
For Easter 2015, Paris chocolate artist and chocolatier Jean-Charles Rochoux is featuring the Three Wise Monkeys—Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru—beautifully sculpted in chocolate. The Three Wise Monkeys are a pictorial maxim that reminds us to “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” The trio’s popularity can be traced to a 17th-century carving over the … Continue reading Jean-Charles Rochoux: Three Wise Monkeys
