French Pastries
Madeleines
Traditional small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape
Availability: 1:6 scale (Petite Madeliene size for 1:12 scale)
Features:
Realistic looking piped meringue shell with texture
Hand-sculpted raspberries
A thin rose petal as decoration
Available in large or single serving
Single serving comes with a gold placemat
Ispahan
Rose flavoured macaron filled with rose petal and lychee cream, embellished with fresh raspberries
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Realistic looking piped meringue shell with texture
Hand-sculpted raspberries
A thin rose petal as decoration
Available in large or single serving
Single serving comes with a gold placemat
Tarte
A French tart with shortcrust pastry, rich filling and delicious fresh fruits
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Comes with white paper doily
Intricate fruits and berries
Light looking pastry
Creamy looking filling
Arranged in so many different designs
Tartelettes
A mini version of the tarte
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Light cream fillings
Realistic fruit toppings
Realistic meringue
Pastry base painted to look crumbly
Choux Pastry Swans
These swans are a real show-stopper and a great way to show off with choux pastry piping
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Realistic chantilly cream
Powdered pastry
Painted to look like the real thing
Each one hand-sculpted to scale
Croissant
A croissant is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry of Austrian origin, named for its historical crescent shape
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
With or without powdered sugar
Available in 2 shapes
Painted to look like a buttery pastry
Hand-sculpted to form realistic looking flaky layers
Mont Blanc
Delicate pastries that resemble a snow-capped mountain
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Made to scale
Individually sculpted
Ombré colours available
May be decorated with fruits or other dessert garnish
Topped with realistic looking cream
Macaron
A delicate meringue-based cookie sandwich
Availability: 1:6 and 1:12 scale
Features:
Available in ombré and stripe
Endless possibilities in filling including 'sparkly' gel based ones
Realistic meringue texture
Mille-feuille/Napoleon
Crispy layers of puff pastry with a rich custard pastry cream filling and then garnishing the top with a glossy royal icing
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Available in different shapes
Varied decoration on top
Hand-drawn 'feathered' icing effect
St. Honoré
A puff pastry base, topped with pastry cream and whipped cream, surrounded by profiteroles dipped - their sugary tops resembling the halos of saints!
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Light looking choux pastries
Rich cream decoration
Available in different designs
Gâteau
Grand French towers for weddings and special events
Availability: 1:6 and 1:12 scale
Features:
Grand cakes
Croque-en-bouche with real caramel looking swirl
Any design is possible
Palmier
Crunch into a million layers of fine and flaky buttery pastry
Availability: 1:6 scale
Features:
Painted to look like baked pastry
Maybe layers textured
Coated in sugar
Light and thin
Choux à la crème
Also known as 'cream puffs', these choux pastry buns are filled piped cream or chocolate ganache
Choux Buns
Light unfilled choux pastries
Éclair
Pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with chocolate icing or other decoration
Profiterole
Filled French choux pastry ball and decorated in chocolate sauce and icing sugar
Religieuse
Made of two choux pastry cases, one larger than the other, filled with crème pâtissière
Boulangerie
Pain (French for bread)
Pain au chocolat
Similar in texture to a puff pastry, with one or two pieces of dark chocolate in the centre.
Brioche à tête
A brioche baked into a fluted round tin with a ball of dough placed on top to form the 'head', the tête
Pain d'epi
Essentially a baguette in the shape of a wheat shaft, a charming French tradition dating back centuries