Welcome to the section of my website entirely dedicated to French sweet recipes from Monsieur de France. Here you will find easy homemade desserts to prepare: crepes, pies, madeleines, brioches, mousses, cookies, and regional treats. Each recipe shares a piece of French expertise and can be enjoyed from breakfast to afternoon tea.
What a delight French pastries are! You can enjoy them for breakfast, a snack, at the end of a meal, or just for pleasure (yes, we're allowed to indulge!). Find out here which are the best known and what's in them. I'll also tell you where they were born. Here are the top 20 French pastries to try on your trip to France
Carnival doughnuts are a tradition around Shrove Tuesday in many parts of France, especially in the East. A lot of people make them and offer them to their neighbors. What's the recipe and how do you make them? Monsieur de France's tips.
It's a very, very gourmet Alsatian mania: putting migaine in the tart. And we do it with apple pie. A delicious combination of apples, cream and eggs, this recipe is as generous as Alsace itself...
It's a dish as emblematic as the fruit is for Normandy: the apple tart. It has to be said that Normandy is truly the orchard of France, and we know what it takes to make apples sublime. Discover my grandma Simone's apple tart recipe here.
The origin would be British, but lemon is also from the South of France, particularly Menton, and it's a tart you'll find in French brasseries. You can make it yourself, and it's delicious! Follow Monsieur de France's recipe. (Actually, no, it's my Aunt Nicole's, but shhhh!).
Everything is gourmet in Lorraine, even the crêpes! These famous "vautes" or "votes" are, in fact, very thick crêpes that can be eaten as a spread or even, given their thickness, eaten with fruit. There's nothing to it and it's just delicious.
Shortbread: delicious to break hunger, to offer to guests or to accompany coffee, economical and an ideal recipe to introduce little ones to pastry-making. Discover our recipe :
Pancakes are a simple delicacy. An old recipe that lets you indulge yourself by varying the filling. Discover the recipe of my Aunt Nicole, from Brittany (the region of crêpes!) and make your crêpes a family success!
Flan is delicious. Eggs, cream and a hint of childhood to savor with my grandmother's flan recipe, which I'm sharing with you here ...
Some date its creation back to the 17th century, and it's even said that Madame de Sévigné knew this recipe, which I'm sharing with you and which my grandmother made every Christmas.
