When you carefully examine the windows of a neighborhood bakery, you still too often find red fruit pies throughout the year. Fortunately, the use of raspberries only in high season tends to become widespread. While the first fruits grown in greenhouses appear in mid-April, raspberries grown in the ground are present on the markets from mid-June to October. In France, they are mainly produced in the Rhône-Alpes region and in Corrèze. While there are many varieties, tulameen is considered by all to be the most balanced with its sweet and tangy taste.
Until the 19the century, raspberries were mainly consumed alone, associated with other red fruits or in the form of jam, compote, ice cream, confectionery or syrup. Nowadays, they can still be eaten on their own, accompanied by sugar and fresh cream, or used as a filling for pies. Traditionally, the raspberry tart is made of a pastry (shortcrust pastry, shortbread, sweet, puff pastry), almond cream or whipped cream and fresh raspberries.
After having tasted and rated more than thirty cakes according to various specific criteria (visual, texture of the dough, flavor of the cream, taste quality of the raspberries, without forgetting the famous quality-quantity-price ratio), here is our list of winners – in no particular order – for 2022.
Vincent Guerlais raspberry tart
A taste bud agitator since 1997, Vincent Guerlais has never ceased to pamper his numerous Nantes clientele. With the opening of six shops, the sweet aura of this chef has spread to the whole department, even to the region. Little by little, its sweet range developed and evolved qualitatively and quantitatively, between cakes, chocolates, macaroons, snacks, ice creams and pastries.
Our opinion : Lovers of excellent whipped cream will be delighted with this devilishly generous tart which only keeps the essentials to sublimate the precious taste of the fruit. Cooking the crispy dough perfectly balances the whole.
Composition : shortcrust pastry, whipped cream and fresh raspberries.
Nantes, La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Carquefou, Saint-Sebastien-sur-Loire. Price: €5.60.
Raspberry tart from Stéphane Glacier
Present in the Parisian suburbs since 2008, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France pastry chef 2000 is a true ambassador of French pastry. Not content with designing a wide range of cakes and entremets with metronomic regularity, he also puts forward unbeatable prices.
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