We are staying in an apartment on the Ile de la Cite and my daughter will be celebrating her 15th birthday while we%26#39;re there. Does anyone know of a good bakery I could order a chocolate fudge cake? Do you have to order them or would you be able to just buy one already made in a patisserie like you could in Australia. Please excuse my ignorance but I wasn%26#39;t sure if you would just have small cakes ie eclairs etc in patisseries. Anything within walking distance would be good!
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Calixte is a great bakery on the Ile St Louis, near where you will be staying. I don%26#39;t know about ordering an anglo-style chocolate cake, though.
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Whenever we have celebrated birthdays we have gone to a patisserie and chosen a cake and then explained it is for a birthday and they have little Bonne Fete, Bonne Anniversaire decorations that we have chosen to add to the cake. I hope you have a lovely day.
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Thanks for your tips guys. We are certainly open to the French version of our Mud Cake so will give Calixte a go. I%26#39;m sure a 15 year old girl will be happy with anything that has sugar and chocolate in it!
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in that case your biggest challenge will be limiting yourself to just one..... :-)
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As I go to Paris alone, I have not bought a whole cake (yet....) - but there are so many patisseries who have beautiful cakes on display, including chocolate-cakes, so I am sure your daughter will love the French version. You should also take a look at the strawberry or raspberry cakes !!!
You could maybe try the patisserie Gérard MULOT in Rue de Seine. Follow Rue de Seine southwards, till you have crossed Blvd. Saint-Germain and then it is only 200 meters further down, on your right hand side. I bought a very delicious %26quot;mille-feuilles aux fruits rouges%26quot; - and some macaroons (which I didn%26#39;t like, unfortunately).
You can also walk north up Rue Montorgeuil nr. 51 (in the 2nd arr.) to the very old establishment STOHRER. I had a really good raspberry-cake there.
A %26quot;full%26quot; cake will cost you anything from 15 to 25 euros - and will go for 6 persons. You can also have all sorts of small cakes (including eclairs) - with or without fruits, cream, chocolate, marengue etc. etc.
Also this patisserie COUASNON in Rue Levis in the 17th arr. has fantastic goodlooking cakes (even if it is a bit out of your way the food market in Rue Levis is truly unforgettable):
http://www.mariage.net/couasnon/
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I agree with the Gerard Mulot cakes...They look incredible. I loved the small cakes, didn%26#39;t have the big ones but they should taste as good
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and no one mentions my favorite, La Duree?
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elliemae: I am sure that Ladurée has some absolutely wonderful cakes, not to mention the famous macaroons, but after this thread
from April 2006, you might say that the gilt has worn off as well the proverbial gingerbread as off the macaroons........
tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187147-i14-k59240…
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Hi Gitte! Don%26#39;t let the furry critters scare you off, they are everywhere!
The poster has asked for something near Ile de la Cite... all of the others mentioned are great, if not next door. However, if I was going to be schlepping a treat across the city, I%26#39;d head to Pierre Herme, which is where I go for very special occasions. The cakes are magnificent and he has desserts in glasses that are to die for. She could then keep the glasses as souvenirs and to use as vases/pencil holders/whatnot on her desk at home. For a chocolate lover, the Pleinitude cake is the best chocolate anything I have EVER put in my mouth.
Two notes, I usually get a much smaller size than any bakery reccommends, as I find the cakes too rich to eat in large portions. (husband and I share one mini Pleinitude for the two of us). For visitors to Paris, I usually get a selection of little cakes that can then be cut in 1/2s, 1/3s or 1/4s and shared, giving the maximum tasting flavours with minimum expense, waste and guilt.
Happy Celebrations.
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phread, I look forward to tasting the pleinitude cake one of these days from Pierre Herme....I%26#39;ve heard you mentionit before. One of those KIM%26#39;s to place in the memory file! Sounds to me like that%26#39;s the ticket for Search%26#39;s daughter. Didn%26#39;t I also hear that Pierre Herme had the original recipe for the macarons that I adore so much from La Duree? OMG there goes the diet....even thinking about these things is making me feel guilty...(I have painstakingly taken off about 15 pounds since I saw you and Alexth, running around after my sweet BeauBeau on the beach.)
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