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Angelina - Un cadeau

Angelina Chocolat Chaud watercolor on Etsy

I was thinking yesterday in the heat, maybe I'd find an iced Chocolat chaud at Angelina...

Instead I looked for a pastry to paint.

I've always wondered about this Religieuse Fraise/strawberry...

I asked the server if he could put my non-slip paper under the pastry since the last time the tarte fruits rouge kind of exploded all over the place slip-sliding around the box. The server handed me my box and said,

"Un cadeau for you! Since you 'lost' the last pastry. What?!

I went outside

And got a fraise ice cream just like last year feeling as if I was walking on air...

Across the street in the Tuileries jardins the shoot-de-shoots was turning somersaults crazily. I carried my prized pastry home on tip-toe. No wonder French girls wear ballerinas.

Back home the moment of truth. Did the pastry survive the trip?

Ta Da! Thanks to Frederic Cassel's non-slip lining paper dear Religiese Fraise arrived in one piece!

But the heat was too much for a proper cross-section view of the delights inside - a surprisingly light dessert of chou pastry, strawberry cream, strawberry confit and strawberry icing. None of it overly sweet. Et voila!

Angelina Religieuse Fraise 1 watercolor on Etsy

Angelina Religieuse Fraise2 watercolor on Etsy

Angelina Religieuse Fraise3 watercolor on Etsy

Doesn't this confisier/candy man look like a Religieuse Fraise?

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Fraises Angelina

In July Paris becomes Berry Town.

Angelina is putting their best strawberries/fraises forward in their vitrine.

Strawberry jam/confiteur

Nectar Fraise, which Karen Wheeler introduced me to, added to Perrier makes a refreshing summer drink in the hot weather.

Have you tried Angelina's macalon?

A macaron elongated - so more to love.

Tarte au fraise under glass.

Don't you love how French pastry chefs take an old-fashioned classic like strawberry-rhubarbe compot and turn it into an elegant dessert/douceur?

This strawberry concoction had me wondering...

Was it related to Charlotte Russe?

Usually made with lady finger biscuits?

Keep researching and the answer comes to you - a variety of strawberry. La fraise Charlotte est très appréciée pour son goût très aromatique et parfumé, sur des notes de fraise des bois.