Are you longing for a delicious French dessert? Well, you don’t need to be a Parisian pastry chef to make stunning French desserts at home. These easy recipes bring rich, bakery-worthy flavors right to your kitchen. From flaky mille-feuille to silky crème brûlée, every bite feels like a trip to Paris. Channel your inner French baker and whip up something delicious!
Palmiers
Palmiers are a great example of how something doesn't have to have lots of ingredients to be delicious! Puff pastry and sugar are rolled up into the shape of a palm and baked in the oven. That's it!
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Choux Au Craquelin
Choux Au Craquelin is an elegant crunchy cream puff made from choux pastry topped with a thin cookie disc called craquelin. Craquelin adds an extra sweet, crunchy texture, and you can pipe the interior air pocket full of delicious fillings like diplomat cream for a classic European dessert.
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Fraisier Cake
Fraisier cake is a famous French dessert that looks beautiful and tastes even better. It is made from two layers of moist Genoise sponge, a vanilla-flavored créme mousseline filling, strawberry jelly, strawberry compote, and fresh strawberries. It is much easier to make than any other cake and looks fantastic!
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Mango Mousse Cake
A light and airy French mango mousse cake is traditionally made with whipped egg whites folded into an egg yolk sabayon base or sometimes made in other ways eg. with a cream cheese base. Mousse is sometimes served in a cup or can be made into a light and airy cake.
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Chouquettes
Made with fluffy choux pastry dough and sweet Swedish pearl sugar, these light and airy chouquettes may be only one or two bites, but they are absolutely irresistible! Serve these delicious French sugar puffs for breakfast with a hot cup of tea or coffee, and enjoy a few as an afternoon snack or after dinner.
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Rum Baba
Rum baba (baba au rum), this classic yeast French bundt cake soaked in delicious rum syrup, decorated with a light vanilla bean whipped mascarpone frosting is the ultimate brioche-like boozy dessert!
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Crème brûlée
Crème brûlée (which translates as "burnt cream") is one of my favorite French desserts. It is a rich cream custard baked in a water bath with sugar sprinkled over the top that is torched (or brûléed) until it melts to form a hard and crunchy top layer. It is made of a few simple ingredients and many people don´t know how incredibly easy to prepare!
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Financiers
French financiers are small bite-sized tea cakes, kind of like fancy French muffins! These French sweets are made with nut flour and browned butter (a "beurre noisette") and baked into dainty rectangles. They can be flavored with spices like cardamom, and they are often decorated with chopped nuts, too.
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Charlotte cake
A Charlotte cake (or "Charlotte aux Fraises") looks so professional but is in fact incredibly easy to make! This beautiful French cake is filled with silky and luxurious Crème mousseline and decorated with fluffy ladyfinger biscuits and fresh strawberries.
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Floating Island
Floating island is a classic French dessert that resembles an island, hence the name! The dessert is effectively a Crème Anglaise custard with poached meringue floating on top, which sounds complicated but it is a lot easier to make than it sounds.
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Mille Feuille
Mille feuille (or "thousand leaves") is a famous French dessert made from layers of puff pastry and pastry cream. To make homemade mille feuille, you bake puff pastry under weights so it remains compacted and crisp and doesn't puff up high. Afterward, the crispy layers of Mille Feuille are stacked with crème pâtissière or crème mousseline. And finally, topped with powdered sugar, whipped cream, or fruit.
Get the recipe: Mille Feuille
Chocolate Chip Brioche Bread
If you love brioche bread, you will want to try this fluffy chocolate chip brioche bread recipe! This buttery chocolate chip brioche takes the classic French brioche bread to the next level by adding crunchy, decadent chocolate chips to the mix. Whether you serve it for breakfast, brunch, or a post-dinner dessert, it will be a guaranteed crowd-pleaser!
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Paris-Brest
Imagine a ring of choux pastry filled with hazelnut praline crème mousseline filling. Certainly, it sounds delicious, one of my favorite French desserts! This classic French Paris-Brest recipe has it all. Crispy pâte à choux, silky, nutty creme mousseline filling, extra praline paste, and roasted hazelnuts make Paris-Brest one of the most impressive European desserts of all! This fancy-looking dish is a great dessert for a dinner party as it feeds a crowd and looks so impressive.
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Chocolate Mousse Cups
These no-bake, five-ingredient chocolate mousse cups are a chocolate lover's dream come true! Made with rich dark chocolate and topped with delicious airy chantilly cream and sweet chocolate shavings, they are the perfect treat to satisfy your post-dinner sweet tooth. Not only are these drool-worthy desserts easy to make, but they are also eye-catching and beautiful!
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Creme Brulee Cake
Your classic crème brûlée dessert just got even better with this irresistible vanilla crème brûlée cake! This eye-catching dessert is made with a light and spongy vanilla cake base, topped with a creamy homemade vanilla pastry cream, and then brought to life with a caramelized layer of crunchy burnt sugar. It will quickly become one of your favorites!
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Chocolate Brioche
For chocolate lovers who enjoy brioche bread's tender, fluffy texture, this chocolate brioche gives you the best of both worlds! This easy chocolate brioche recipe takes classic brioche bread and fills it with swirls of creamy chocolate and cocoa powder before topping it with melted butter. Enjoy it for breakfast with a cup of coffee or for an after-dinner treat!
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Crème Brûlée Cookies
This easy crème brûlée cookies recipe combines two dessert favorites to create an irresistible handheld treat! Gooey, soft sugar cookies are topped with a creamy pastry cream and then finished with a crispy caramelized sugar topping. It is a cookie lover's dream come true!
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Apple Pie Choux Au Craquelin
This Apple Pie Choux au craquelin (crispy cream puff) is the perfect combination of American Apple pie and French Choux pastry, a showstopper dessert that will be the start this Fall! I love how the crispy Choux au craquelin bonds with the creamy homemade Apple pie filling while the whipped mascarpone on top balances the flavors. Its delicate texture and delicious flavor will certainly impress everyone.
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Sablé Breton Tart
Sablé Breton is a delicious French pâtissérie-style buttery pastry often used as a base of a cake or tart or simply enjoyed as sable cookies. This Sablé Breton tart filled with raspberry confit, custard - creme mousseline, to be exact - and raspberries is a delicious and super decorative dessert that you will be able to make easily following my step-by-step baking guide.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Macarons
Chocolate hazelnut macarons are a dream for chocolate and hazelnut lovers in a lovely, bite-sized French macaron format. The macarons are filled with silky chocolate ganache and hazelnut paste with the most delicious natural nutty flavor. These creamy, crunchy, chewy macarons are the ultimate afternoon tea snack that will impress everyone!
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Cannelés de Bordeaux
Cannelés—sometimes spelled Canelés—are a classic French pastry with a deliciously crispy caramelized exterior and soft baked custard center. These little cakes are packed with fresh Vanilla flavors and a touch of Rum.
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Parisian Flan
This Parisian flan, aka "Flan Pâtissier" in French, is a classic French dessert that is deliciously creamy. This baked custard tart is perfect for a dinner party, dessert, or afternoon tea.
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Clafoutis
Cherry Clafoutis, this classic French dessert, is the ultimate flan-like recipe that comes together really quickly and easily! It has a custard-like creamy texture and can be made with a great variety of fruits, e.g., berries, cherries, apples, etc. This is a rustic dessert with a homemade comfort food vibe and probably the easiest recipe on my blog!
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Profiteroles
Profiteroles are made from classic French choux pastry dough and are super easy to make. Profiteroles can be filled and decorated in a variety of ways, both sweet and savory.
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French-Style Lemon Tart
This is the traditional French-style lemon tart with creamy lemon filling and a buttery crust. You will need just a small piece to fall in love with this delicate French pastry!
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More Desserts
From baklava and other filo pastry-based desserts to loukoumades, here are the best Greek desserts, all in one place. Greece is known as the cradle of Western civilization for a reason, and Greek desserts arguably might be one of them. Check out these recipes for Greek desserts and find your favorite.
Go to the recipes: Best Greek Desserts
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