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Desserts

Desserts bring structure to sweetness, from cakes and custards to frozen treats and fruit-driven finishes that close the meal with intention.

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Oranges Rubannées

Chef Juliette

Oranges Rubannées

Oranges Rubannées turn a whole orange into its own striped mould: six clean ribbons of raspberry, vanilla, and pistachio blanc-mange, chilled firm and cut at the table to reveal the pattern.

Oranges en Surprise

Chef Juliette

Oranges en Surprise

Orange ice hidden in its own shell, mantled with Meringue à l’Italienne (No. 2383) and bronzed under fierce heat in seconds: a frozen dessert whose elegance rests entirely on speed.

Oranges Soufflées en Surprise

Chef Juliette

Oranges Soufflées en Surprise

Four bright orange rinds hide tender, citrus-perfumed soufflés under their own caps, a dinner-party lesson in glossy whites, a light folding hand, and the good sense to seat everyone before baking.

Pêches Aiglon

Chef Juliette

Pêches Aiglon

Four vanilla-poached peaches settle into a cold bed of vanilla ice cream, bright with crystallised violets and covered at the last moment by spun sugar fine enough to crack under the serving spoon.

Pêches à l’Aurore

Chef Juliette

Pêches à l’Aurore

Pêches à l’Aurore balances temperature as carefully as flavor: kirsch-scented peaches, berry-bright frozen mousse, and warm Curaçao sabayon meeting in one generous spoonful at the table.

Pêches Alexandra

Chef Juliette

Pêches Alexandra

Vanilla-poached peaches, fully chilled and settled over vanilla ice, then masked with vivid strawberry purée, scattered with red and white rose petals, and crowned at the last moment with spun sugar.

Pêches Dame-Blanche

Chef Juliette

Pêches Dame-Blanche

Vanilla-poached peaches sit cold over vanilla ice and maraschino-Kirsch pineapple, while firm fluted Chantilly fills every gap: a grand timbale scaled honestly for four and built to serve at once.

Pêches Melba

Chef Juliette

Pêches Melba

Vanilla-poached peaches, cold vanilla ice cream, and raw raspberry purée meet in exact proportion: a grand French dessert reduced to the three things that matter, each clear, ripe, and generous.

Pêches Petit-Duc

Chef Juliette

Pêches Petit-Duc

Cold vanilla-poached peaches, liqueur-macerated pineapple, and vanilla ice cream meet tart red-currant jelly in neat little mounds, a precise classical variation whose entire success rests on texture and swift assembly.

Pêches à la Sultane

Chef Juliette

Pêches à la Sultane

Vanilla-poached peaches settle into pale pistachio ice, then disappear beneath cold rose syrup and a fine spun-sugar veil. The lesson is restraint: perfume the syrup one drop at a time.

Pêchesà l’Impératrice

Chef Juliette

Pêchesà l’Impératrice

Peach halves become whole again around hard vanilla ice, glossy with apricot and crisp pralined almonds, then settle on liqueur-soaked Génoise with raspberry glaze and a bright veil of spun sugar.

Pêches Rose-Pompon

Chef Juliette

Pêches Rose-Pompon

A whole peach that stays whole: vanilla ice hidden inside, raspberry ice beneath, pralined Chantilly above, and a last veil of pink spun sugar. The dessert is architecture made delicate.

Poires à la Carignan

Chef Juliette

Poires à la Carignan

Firm vanilla-poached pears hide a frozen chocolate-praliné bombe beneath apricot and chocolate fondant, then rise on anisette-soaked Génoise and pralined almonds, a grand construction made manageable for one careful cook.

Poires Félicia

Chef Juliette

Poires Félicia

Poires Félicia sets cool caramel custard around vanilla-poached pears, then crowns the centre with Chantilly, rose-tinted baby pears, and red praline, a splendid exercise in temperature, timing, and confident unmoulding.

Poires à la Florentine

Chef Juliette

Poires à la Florentine

A chilled ring of creamy semolina Bavarois holding tender pears in vanilla apricot purée, turned out only when the table is ready because its delicate set softens as it stands.

Poires Hélène

Chef Juliette

Poires Hélène

Cold vanilla-poached pears, dense vanilla ice, violet sugar, and a sauceboat of glossy hot chocolate: Poires Hélène makes temperature part of the recipe, with every diner creating the contrast at the first spoonful.

Poires Marquise

Chef Juliette

Poires Marquise

Poires Marquise teaches the patience of a proper cold glaze: vanilla-poached pears lacquered ruby, almond-crusted, and set over chilled Diplomatic Pudding with a precise border of apple-jelly croûtons.

Poires Melba

Chef Juliette

Poires Melba

Vanilla-poached pear halves, chilled and laid over dense vanilla ice cream, then generously coated with raw raspberry purée: the Melba grammar translated from peach to pear without losing its cold, fragrant clarity.

Poires Pralinees

Chef Juliette

Poires Pralinees

Poires Pralinées turn four tender pears into a composed entremets: warm-thinned Frangipane clinging without tearing, cool Chantilly between them, rough almond Pralin above, and chocolate sauce waiting at the dinner table.

Poires à la Religieuse

Chef Juliette

Poires à la Religieuse

Four vanilla-poached pears disappear beneath a thin chocolate Bavarois and emerge from the cold under one tender veil. Pour while the cream still flows, then let the refrigerator finish the work.

Poires à la Reine Emma

Chef Juliette

Poires à la Reine Emma

An ivory flamri crown, jewelled with candied fruit, surrounds vanilla-poached pears under frangipane, almond macaroon, and stiff Chantilly, while a glossy kirsch-apricot sauce waits at the table.

Pommes à la Royale

Chef Juliette

Pommes à la Royale

Six vanilla-poached apples, cool and intact beneath a scarlet red-currant glaze, each on its own crisp blanc-mange tartlet, with clear Maraschino jelly gathered at the center.

Biscuit à la Reine

Chef Juliette

Biscuit à la Reine

Biscuit à la Reine layers crisp pâte sèche, airy biscuit de Savoie, cold kümmel syrup, piped glace royale, and maraschino Bavarois into one composed celebration cake, with cold saturation as its governing discipline.

Croûte à la Mexicaine

Chef Juliette

Croûte à la Mexicaine

A crown of almond-crusted Génoise surrounding a jagged mound of Plombière ice: this grand frozen entremets succeeds on one quiet discipline, drying every cake finger hard before cold cream can touch it.

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