Stohrer :: Tartlette aux Fraises
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A good 30 minute walk from my apartment in Saint Germain, I knew at least one of my three Stohrer purchases wasn’t going to make it home intact. So I grabbed at table at Café Richard, ordered a petit déjeuner, and once finished, used my croissant plate to stage shots of the pastries I’d picked up. The others will be featured another day, but this tartlette aux fraises was the first.
The strawberries themselves were fairly fresh, and they had a nice amount of sweetness, without being overdone. The crème was just “eh”, and it seemed to be there more as a matter of course than as something to be enjoyed on its own merits. But the crust was what got me. Totally weird – but kind of in a good way…
It was by no means a conventional tarte crust (an upcoming review on Laduree’s tarte citron will highlight what that entails). It was actually closer to a sugar cookie: chewy, moist and with the grain and density of . . . a cookie. There was just no escaping the cookieness of it all. Very tasty, even if somewhere the French pastry Gods are weeping at its culinary blasphemy.
When in the mood for a strawberry tarte, this is an off-beat though reasonable choice. Bon appetit.
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