These French cake recipes are all fairly easy, allowing you to quickly make a luscious homemade dessert from France.
As with all good French food the secret to success is to start with the very best ingredients possible. The freshest eggs, high quality flours and sugars, and pure butter are the cornerstones to good baking, French or otherwise.
This very simple French cake includes almond powder for extra flavor and moistness. Great for dessert,
served with whipped cream or ice cream, or try it as a breakfast coffee cake.
You could think of these uniquely shaped desserts as French cupcakes. A crunchy caramelized exterior gives way to a creamy crepe like interior. Flavored with rum and vanilla.
Here's a homemade cake recipe from Corsica, the Mediterranean island belonging to France. It features chestnut flour,
a frequent ingredient in Corsican cuisine.
Called a
Reine de Saba, this simple chocolate cake is made dense and moist with almond flour. Serve topped with crème anglaise for a typically French dessert.
This classic French dessert requires no baking. Brandy soaked lady fingers line a special mold and then
are filled with an airy chocolate mousse for an elegant presentation.
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This cake called
Moelleux au chocolat in French, features a warm liquid center. Easy to make ahead and then bake right before serving.
Served in a pool of raspberry sauce and topped with sweetened whipped cream, this flourless homemade cake is chocolate to the max and very a easy to make dessert.
The recipe for choux pastry is easier than you might imagine. It is the basis for lots of French cake recipes, some of them quite elaborate. A plate of cream puffs would make an easy and fun offering at a birthday party.
La galette des rois is a frangipane stuffed puff pastry with a little surprise. Intended for a Twelfth Night celebration, you could enjoy this easy homemade cake anytime you want.
If you're looking for something French to serve with tea or as a snack, these scallop-shaped cakes would be perfect. Easy to make and distinctively French.
This cake is a little more elaborate then most cakes you'll find here. Genoise layers are frosted with a coffee flavored buttercream and decorated with toasted almonds. A rich and elegant dessert.
Les navettes de Saint Victor are a speciality of the south of France and feature the unusual taste of orange flower water. Try serving them with this orange flavored marscapone cheese for a super treat.
Far Breton is one of the French cake recipes from the Brittany region. It features Agen Prunes in a flan-like cake. Delicious and nutritious.
The name literally means oil pump, and this sweetened olive oil yeast bread is the traditional centerpiece of the 13 Provencal Christmas homemade desserts. Great for a breakfast sweet bread.
A deceptively plain looking cake, these yummy little
pavés will have you and your family reaching for just one more.
Pain d'épices is a traditional recipe from the Alsace region of France. You can enjoy it as it is at tea time
or for breakfast or use it in other French recipes.
Here's a very easy
Buche de Noel recipe. Chocolate buttercream and genoise cake make the perfect combination
for this classic French holiday dessert.
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