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| Des Pains au Chocolat – a French delight |
There is nothing more heavenly than starting off your French morning with a buttery Pain Au Chocolat and a hot beverage. Why am I so obsessed? Well maybe because these things are essentially croissants (delicious), with chocolate stuffed inside (more delicious), so what’s NOT to love?!
These square-shaped French pastries can be found at the local boulangerie or market. They are created in a very similar fashion to croissants, the final product arriving with a brilliant sheen and a stick or two of French chocolate within. Les pains au chocolat are relatively inexpensive, this helps fuel my love for them. Carrefour sells these pasteries by bundles of 6, thus for a low price you can have breakfast for a week! (I personally prefer getting them from the local bakeries). I found an added bonus for tourists who don’t have much proficiency in French, the ease of obtaining this delight only requires you pointing and saying “un pain au chocolat s’il vous plaît.”
Unless you happen to live in a big city, like New York, finding these things may be near to impossible within the United States. If you’re fixing for one of these babies, but can’t find any around you, just take the best quality croissant you can find and stuff it with chocolate! Is there anybody else out there who loves these things as much as me?? Comments can be posted below, no subscription is required to share your story – we’d love to hear from you!
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Oui! In Paris (we rent a B and B for a week or two) one of us goes out every morning to the nearby boulangerie to purchase our very fresh pains au chocolat to have back at our “flat” with hot coffee. Also, we always have our coffee the French way: we heat up some hpt milk and we pour the milk and the cofferr into our oversized cups in tow streams at the same time, co-mingling the two hot liquids before they are in the cup. There is absolutely a different “feel” to the coffee compared to pouring in the coffee, followed by the milk. We never use cold cream or milk anymore. It’s got to be heated, first!
Chocolatine !
I used to eat 12 of these every morning for breakfast. I also bench press 320 pounds, so I can get away with that…being a weight lifting enthusiast. But I do see your love for these pastries. I have yet to eat a crepe though! :(
I’ve just started learning French and share the same passion as you, although not the same skill…yet at least. I am in it for the long haul, as I intend to move and live in France. This website you’ve created has been very helpful to me, I really appreciate it. Cheers!