French baking recipes

Soufflés, madeleines, clafoutis, Pithiviers… the French sure know their way around an oven. Check out our slideshow for our collection of the greatest hits of French baking.

Give your baking skills a French kiss with these goodies that celebrate butter, chocolate, sugar and all things warm and flaky. Whether you’re after a cake, a tart or a cream-filled cookie, we have a Marie Antoinette-esque creation to satisfy all your cravings. Fair warning: your kitchen will smell like heaven when you’re done.

Fougasse

Mini bacon and cheese pastries

Cardamom and orange palmiers

Pear dartois

Vanilla sablé

Blood orange sablés Bretons with mascarpone and pistachios

Dark chocolate, pear and pistachio cake

Gâteau Saint-Honoré

Gâteau Basque

Choux pastries with pistachio cream

Pain au chocolat

Chocolate and almond millefeuille

Chocolate éclairs

Paris brest

Allumettes with café au lait anglaise

Pear tarte Tatin

Passionfruit soufflés with vanilla Anglaise

Le gibassier

Tartes au citron

Almond Pithiviers with Armagnac prunes

Orange-blossom madeleines with burnt-honey crème

Pistachio vacherin

Tarte fine aux pommes

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