French Made Baking

Coffee, Tea and Hot Chocolate:
We serve brewed coffee, espressos and americanos.
For tea, we chose an exceptionnal French/Russian brand: Kusmi. More about this Tea House here.
Homemade hot chocolate (currently unavailable)

Combos:
Café-Croissant (all day): $4.75 (coffee or tea + any plain or sweet croissant)
Breakfast (10am-noon): $6.75 (coffee or tea + any kind of croissant + Happy Planet juice/smoothie)
Lunch (11am-2pm): $9 (quiche, croque-monsieur or savoury croissant + pop or water + any individual dessert like small tarts, lava cake, chocolate mousses, éclairs, mille-feuille…)

Baked goods:
In the store we have typical French bakery fare: croissants and viennoiseries,  quiches, chocolate mousses, macarons, canelés, etc. We also bake individual tarts like apple tatin, lemon and chocolate-raspberry. The products below are only examples of what we bake but not all our products are listed here and not all the items listed are on the shelves every day. Our line-up will expand in the next few months.

A long-time favourite of Parisian tea rooms, le macaron has now attracted itself to Japan and North America where the major cities are witnessing a surge in macaron shops. The French macaron bears very little resemblance to its cousin the Coconut based macaroon, besides its Italian-derived name. The French macaron is a sweet confectionary made of two almond meringue discs stuck together with a generous layer of butter cream, jam or ganache filling.

Although they always look pretty with their bright colors and creamy fillings, creating a great macaron on the outside and on the inside is an art. When baked to perfection, the outside of the shell forms a delicate crust to protect the inside which remains soft and moist, blending in with the filling to reveal its flavours. Macarons are NOT like Oreo cookies: do not try to open them! (in fact, if the macaron is perfect, you shouldn’t even be able to separate the two halves)

The best pastry chefs can be very creative with macarons, there is virtually no limit to the yummy fillings they can come up with! At French Made Baking, we are lucky to have one of those exceptional chefs and we regularly offer seasonal flavours (homemade jams and fruit purées) and surprise you with unusual combinations (Chocolate/Earl Grey tea, Coffee/Candied orange, etc)… French Macarons are gluten free (list of ingredients).

Available individually and gift boxes.

Le canelé is a small French pastry, traditionnally baked in the Bordeaux region but that can now be found in some Parisian pâtisseries as well. The right way to pronounce its name is: canel-eh, shouldn’t be too hard for a Canadian to remember, eh?

Flavored with rum and vanilla, the batter is baked in a small striated cylinder mould that gives the canelé its specific shape and makes for a tender custard-like heart underneath a thick caramelized crust. It’s so different from any pastry you have ever had (unless you’ve already had some in Bordeaux!), words come short when trying to describe how good it is, so there’s only one thing left to do: try it!

Le Fondant au Chocolat is a molten heart chocolate cake made with dark Belgian chocolate (fair trade and organic). Eat it on the go at the Farmers’ Markets and the heart will taste like chocolate fudge or warm it up for 5 minutes at 350 F to have a heavenly lava cake (even better with ice cream or custard on the side!). Gluten free.

Upon order we can bake larger cakes for family/friends/business functions or birthdays.

La madeleine is a small sponge cake-like French pastry very recognizable by its distinctive “hump” and its shell-shaped bottom acquired from being baked in specific moulds. Traditionally, freshly gratted zest is added to the batter to give it a slight lemon flavour.

Originally from the 18th century Lorraine region in northeastern France, it quickly became one of the most popular pastry in every French bakery and one of the most renowned French cakes. UPON AVAILABILITY, NOT BAKED EVERYDAY FOR NOW

La chouquette is a bite size viennoiserie consisting of a small portion of choux pastry baked and sprinkled with pearl sugar. There is no filling in a chouquette, it is a very light pastrie. It’s so small and addictive that we sell it by the dozen. UPON AVAILABILITY, NOT BAKED EVERYDAY FOR NOW

Savoury versions are called  “gougères” and can be flavoured with pretty much anything you can think of (herbs, spices, cheese, ham, salmon…)!

Also made of choux pastry: chocolate or coffee éclairs and vanilla cream puffs. UPON AVAILABILITY, NOT BAKED EVERYDAY FOR NOW

La brioche is a kind of bread enriched with eggs, butter, milk and a bit of sugar. The crust is lightly caramelized and soft. Try it with your usual peanut butter/jelly or with jam and tell us what you think about it! UPON AVAILABILITY, NOT BAKED EVERYDAY FOR NOW

Lighter versions of brioche are called pain au lait (milk bread) or viennoise, both may be basic, sprinkled with pearl sugar or with chocolate chips.

Upon order we also bake mini-brioches for you to make cute mini-sandwiches (grilled cheese, jam…).

Le financier is a light, moist teacake similar to sponge cake where part of the flour has been replaced by ground almonds.
Besides the classic almond-flavoured, we bake raspberry, matcha green tea and orange/chocolate financiers and we will introduce new flavours on a regular basis. Traditionnally, financiers are shaped as a gold bar (legend says that’s where the name comes from) but we like being unconventional and we also bake round-shaped ones that are best suited for some flavours. Our financiers are gluten free. UPON AVAILABILITY, NOT BAKED EVERYDAY FOR NOW

LARGE TARTS:

Tarte tatin (caramelized apples on puff pastry crust).

L’Amandine (pears, almond cream & chocolate on puff pastry crust)

SEASONAL: GALETTE DES ROIS (also know as Pithiviers which is available year round upon order)

Puff pastry filled with frangipane almond cream. See blog post here for more details.

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