MINI CRUNCHIES

I crunch, you crunch, we all crunch...

You'll soon be crunching away with the best of them.

A well-known food writer once told me he liked crunchy desserts because they reminded him that he had teeth. That was back in the days of trendy mousse desserts.

We had those words in mind when we invented our Croq’s (Crunchies). A cross between a macaroon and a meringue, these little bite-sized treats will Crunch in your mouth and remind you of the almond petits fours of our childhood days.

Available in a multitude of soft and tangy flavours and colours, they are the perfect accompaniment to ice cream and sorbet or fruit salad, and will liven up floating islands and blancmange.

Caution: uncontrolled Crunching can result in tremendous enjoyment.

Available in 65 g and 180 g bags priced at €2.80 and €7.80.

 

THE MOIST RANGE

In fine foods generally, and pastry in particular, one recipe always has its roots in another one.

At Macarons Gourmands, when we created the Moelleux (Moist) line a year ago, Yannick Lefort wanted to remain in the sweet world of macaroons.

He also wanted to preserve the inner tenderness of this little treat.

The search lasted more than two years, and his mind kept harking back to memories of eating Genoa cake.

This association of ideas combined with macaroons gave rise to the Moist range from Macarons Gourmands

Our Moist macaroons come in four flavours: chocolate, pistachio, raspberry, and lemon.

Made in the true Macarons Gourmands spirit, their flavour comes from noble products such as Italian pistachio nuts, Valrhona chocolate, home-made raspberry jam, fresh lemon juice and zest, all obviously without the addition of artificial flavourings.

For a luxury breakfast or teatime, Moist macaroons provide many pleasures in a single shell; the perfect travel snack, you can take them with your for the weekend because they keep for 5 or 6 days out of the refrigerator.

 

THE ALBA TRUFFLE

Loaded with history, flavours and legends, this product of Italian gastronomy has its roots in Piedmont like so many others.

Chosen as 'product of the year' by our fervent aficionados, perhaps because it single-handedly represents the gourmet struggle that has motivated us every day since our beginnings, the desire to make MACARONS GOURMANDS distinctive, and rejecting the easy path of standardisation.

To achieve this, we spend every day and every moment imagining, thinking, designing, and dreaming of new flavours.
In the midst of these wanderings of the imagination, we fell in love with this absolute gem. Have you noticed the uniqueness that exists in nature, whereby all the leaves and flowers of a plant look alike, and yet no two are identical?

The aroma varies from one truffle to another according to the species of tree on whose roots the truffles grow. The Romans thought it had aphrodisiac powers.
A flavour to savour, firstly with the nose, it has unusual notes of vanilla, liquorice; smoky, woody, roasted... and in the mouth it's a revelation, with a multitude of unexpected, spicy, mineral, suave aromas that connect with the almond flavour through the marriage of certain roasted notes with the mineral persistence.