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Pistachio madeleines

Firm on the outside, soft in the centre and with a prominent pistachio flavour, these madeleines are truly delicious.

Vietnamese prawns

In this recipe, the prawns are first lightly fried, then spiced up with a piquant sauce.

Fruit crémeux

This kind of "crémeux" (it means "creamy", but contains no actual cream) is a basic recipe in the repertoire of French pastry chefs. It is smoother but less frothy than a mousse and uses gelatin to set it as it cools. Often used as a tart filling or in other desserts, crémeux is usually poured to set in a mould. This fruity version is made with raspberries.

Leopard cake

Under this little name, which will please children a lot, is a marbled vanilla-chocolate cake where the chocolate is inserted in the form of lines, which gives to the cut this famous pattern, which imitates the coat of the leopard.

Chocolate tart

As you can see, there's very little added sugar in this recipe, so it's a very chocolatey and bitter-sweet tart.