Ble Sucre

A taste of upcoming food posts…

Today, I trekked across Paris to this patisserie named Ble Sucre (means “Sweet Wheat”) famous for its reasonably-priced, absolutely delicious pastries. This is by far my favorite patisserie in Paris!

Its Madeleines, the iconic French cookie, is especially famous and tastes one hundred times better than those madeleines I used to gulp down from Costco .

cute storefront

From recommendations, I bought a pain aux raisins and Madeleines (they’re supposed to be the best in Paris). The pain aux raisins cost 1,20 Euros (they use commas instead of periods!) and a bag of 4 madeleines were 3,40… (very reasonable, I think!).

I actually don’t even like raisins but I really enjoyed the pain aux raisins. Maybe because, it was the perfect combination of chewy, flaky, sticky and sweet…

Le Pain aux Raisins

The madeleines tasted so light and fluffy and they had an outer shell of light citron frosting that was so flaky and not too sweet. They literally melted in my mouth, probably because there is a gigantic amount of butter in and on them. (Lexi, I expect you to remake these when I get back) I'm not sure why I took so many pictures of these madeleines....they were just so goood. 

It kind of looks like it has a tumor...

In the middle of eating...

Can you see the flaky frosting!?

I decided I’m going to try one of every pastry in this store by the time I leave even if I have to skip lunch (and maybe dinner) to balance out my daily calorie intake…sigh…(truly a Paris problem)

In conclusion, Bennison’s Bakery in Evanston…outdone x infinite.

On a side note, I really like when guys in Paris walk around with their motorcycle helmet still on.

(Sorry, old man for creeping on you while you were innocently buying pastries.)