Les Flâneurs

Just a few different pastries from the French Tarte

In addition to her regular pastry menu -- croissants, pain au chocolat, financiers, croissant aux amandes -- each Saturday Susie will try at least a couple of new items. Here's a sampling of "new" pastries from the past three Saturdays.

Brioche baked with pastry cream and cherries

Chocolate hazelnut financier

Kouig-amann - a Breton butter cake baked to a carmelized finish

variation on a lemon tart

lemon ricotta cake, right out of the oven

lemon ricotta cake, finished

Macaron rustiques

Palmiers

fruit tart with almond cream

sugar bun -- croissant dough rolled and baked to a caramelized finish

"black and blue brioche" - pastry cream baked in brioche with black- and blueberries on top

lemon tart

Baked almond cream tart with fruit

French Tarte sellout - the ides of March in Pawtucket

Well, there were a couple of new items this week: a cherry almond turnover and an orange olive oil cake, along with the regular lineup. As usual, everything sold -- thank the gods -- but the remarkable thing was, sales were the highest in a long time.

The reason: Susie and Lee made more stuff this week. Good crowds and gorgeous weather helped too, of course.

cherry almond turnover

flan parisien - vanilla bean custard

berry almond Breton tart

caramel nut tart

the large version

pear ginger financier

Bouchon - buttermilk cakes rolled in butter and coriander sugar

chocolate hazelnut torte

chocolate moelleux

lemon ricotta cake

orange olive oil cake

apricot flan bun

croissant aux amandes

apple tart

French Tarte pastries sellout at the Winter Farmers Market - Saturday March 8

macaron l'ancienne - hazelnut merinque with chocolate ganache filling

lemon tart with whipped lemon mascarpone on top

berry Breton tart

caramel nut tart

Matcha berry financier

chocolate moelleux

croissant aux amandes

gateau Breton - Breton butter cake

chausson aux pommes - apple turnovers

bouchon - butter cakes rolled in coriander sugar

pain aux chocolat

Back at the French Tarte's -- Last Saturday

With a week off doing virtually and practically nothing but contemplating the ending of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I decided to return to my role as Primary Box Assembler and Front house Greeter for the French Tarte. It was another near-sellout day, although traffic seemed a bit less heavy than in previous weeks.

Anyway it was nice to be back. . .