Le Croissant is a proper French bakery ie not a pseudo French style one - you know what I mean? She chose the following from the top right:
- Chocolate éclair. Lovely chocolate crème filled versus bog standard normal cream. So very chocolately if you are into that sort of thing
- Mille feuille. Glutt cannot pronounce this properly no matter what but nonetheless it was delicious. It is essentially a posh vanilla slice but the pastry is so much more flakier and in all honestly anything custard related has to be divine.
- Rum baba. Moist! This babe was alcohol sodden. Which is a good thing.
- Strawberry cheesecake. A dense texture without being too sweet.
- Strawberry tart (centre). No complaints there. The fruit was fresh as sometimes fruit on tarts tend to be a bit close to their expiry date. Balanced crust to fruit to custard lining ratio.
And I loved the cute business card, which I've purloined and I'll use as bookmark.
Verdict - we loved it.
Overall
Mais oui! We'll definitely return to LCPF to try more delectable pastries, including the savoury ones. Pity the place is only set up for takeaway only.
2 comments:
Thanks for posting this blog. Someone recommended Le Croissant and it's good to see it's worth the trip to find it. I wonder if she makes Buche de Noel?
There's another French patisserie in South Croydon called La Brioche. Very nice, and since I pronounced mille feuille correctly she spoke French to me from then on.
Happy Christmas.
Hi anonymous! Yes le croissant is definitely a proper French patisserie & they are a bit hard to come by in melbourne. I haven't seen a Buche de noël there but that's not to say they can't make one on special request. We normally get a cake sized Mille feuille made up for birthdays. I haven't heard of la brioche but would love to check it out :)
Bonne annee!
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