St Honoré day

The 16th May is the feast day of Saint Honoré, the patron saint of bakers, also known as St Honoratus de Amiens. With our love of french bakers and patisseries we felt that it was a day that needed celebrating so we went to the bakers early this morning to pick up some goodies. The baguette was delicious, and has already nearly gone. The pain aux raisins always delicious, and were eaten with coffee this morning. The galette de chaource are made with the local chaource cheese, we have yet to try these, but we may have one cut up with drinks this evening or more likely, as I will have had a ‘bakers day’ overload, as a nice snack tomorrow.

The St Honoré cake, I think, is produced locally near Amiens, which is a couple of hours drive north from here. It is normally made with choux buns filled with vanilla cream and covered in caramel - as we couldn’t get one of these we plumped for a chocolate religieuse cake. Which is 2 choux buns filled with chocolate creme pate and covered with chocolate icing - very decadent, and very delicious.