La Cerise sur le Gateau

Thanks Rachel! My better half stood at my elbow and hollered STOP before it was too late..

The beginning - I always dive right in to any big area of RED, like eating dessert first. So hard to resist...

An earlier version....

First go including both cherry desserts but maybe too complicated? You tell me.

The suspect in question - la Lipstick Cerise from Des Gateau et du Pain, 63 bd Pasteur 75015 Metro Pasteur

En famille in the jewel case...

La maman Lipstick Cerise...

I got a Saint Honore Pistache Griotte that traveled on the way home. How to design desserts that ne bouge pas/don't move in the box? Patisserie des Reves has them nailed down with little pink stakes that keep the pastries in their place!

Inside:pate sable, pate a choux, compote de griotte, crème onctueuse a la pate de pistache, Chantilly a la pistache - a very delicate and in fact light dessert with hints of pistachio and the surprise of cherry preserve inside. Delish even if it did go slip, sliding away.

Le 'lipstick' dome was more intense, more cherry. The base was delightfully croquant/croustillant à la cassonade. On top, crème légère fouettée au kirsh, compotée de cerises et griottes mi cuites, crème onctueuse à la vanilla.

A few blocks away Pierre Herme's cherry tarte/crumble also with pistachios.

I painted it a few years ago...

At Maison Pichard a classic clafoutis - we're having this for lunch today. Basically a good handful of fresh cherries thrown into a flan base - perhaps the truest cherry dessert.

You can not avoid the cherries in all the marches ripe and ready to gobble and I haven't.

I thought la Princesse would be cherry through and through. It was not. Still a delicious light meringue-almond crunchy dome. A true example of 'La cerise sur la gateaux'/"the icing on the cake". Just decoration. A bit misleading in my opinion...

Will we eat our clafoutis on cherry china today? I'm always flirting with this pattern from Comptoir de Famille...

Paris' patisseries are mostly closing end of this week or beginning of next, so I've been tearing around gathering up the spoils while they are there to be enjoyed. Whatever will I paint in Aout/August?
A petite Solde next week of the watercolor demos on Etsy!