Learning new confectionary or pâtisserie skills is always fun, especially in a Paris chocolate shop. As the holiday season fast approaches, there’s still time to take a chocolate class or two at Les Marquis de Ladurée, Maison Ladurée’s dedicated chocolate store in Paris. The line-up for upcoming chocolate classes includes ganaches, gianduja and rochers, while … Continue reading Les Marquis de Ladurée: Chocolate and pastry workshops
Ladurée Paris has a number of restaurants and boutiques at both Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly airports in Paris. If you don’t have time to shop for macarons and chocolates in Paris before heading to the airport, you can pick up these tasty treats before boarding your flight. Ladurée stores at Paris airports are open every … Continue reading Ladurée stores at Paris airports
Learn techniques for making a variety of Ladurée chocolates and pastries. Les Marquis de Ladurée is offering chocolate- and pastry-making workshops from now through mid-December. Two themes are offered: Féérie au chocolat, which covers chocolate pastries such as religieuses, éclairs and tarte au chocolat; and Trésor de chocolat, which includes chocolate bonbons and truffles. Featured … Continue reading Les Marquis de Ladurée: Fall chocolate and pastry workshops
For its first Easter chocolate collection, Les Marquis de Ladurée has created a set of elegant, beautifully garnished chocolate eggs. L’Œuf Trésor is a limited-edition chocolate egg containing a pyramid of miniature yuzu-chocolate macarons. It comes in milk chocolate or dark chocolate and is available in two sizes (40 cm or 70 cm). Also on offer is a … Continue reading Les Marquis de Ladurée Easter chocolate collection
Ladurée‘s new chocolate shop in Paris, Les Marquis de Ladurée, quietly opened its doors in December, in the midst of the holiday season. Located just a few steps away from the upscale place Vendôme, the new shop is the company’s first store devoted entirely to chocolate. (Ladurée previously operated a small chocolate shop next door … Continue reading Les Marquis de Ladurée
Ladurée‘s featured pastry for December is “la briochette praliné et or fin” (mini brioche with praliné and gold leaf). This rich and buttery mini “brioche mousseline” is filled with old-fashioned praliné and topped with gold-leaf-covered toasted Piedmont hazelnuts. It is the 12th and final dessert in Ladurée’s series of 150th anniversary pastries. Ladurée was founded … Continue reading A mini brioche for December at Ladurée
The 11th in Ladurée‘s series of 150th anniversary pastries — one for every month of 2012 — is La Duchesse. This moist cake features walnuts, a light chestnut mousse, bits of glazed chestnuts and a mini meringue. It is is topped with silky milk chocolate fondant and encased in delicate sheets of chocolate. La Duchesse … Continue reading Ladurée’s November pastry: La Duchesse
