the Best Paris Twelfth Night cake to celebrate the Epiphany on January 6th, 2008

Here is our TOP 10 best Twelfth Night cake adresses for 2008 :

Régis Colin' Twelfth Night cake is the big winner of the almond pancake : decors, cooking, flaky pastry, creaming, every aspect of the cake has been discussed and voted upon by a professional jury...



Régis Colin
53 rue Montmartre
75002 Paris
Tel : 01 42 36 02 80
Open : everyday from 08am to 08pm
Price : 18 € for 6 people - from January 2nd

Arnaud Delmontel created a "thousand and one nights" cake full of oriental flavours : almond cream with an orange flower flavour, honey crumbled pistachio. You'll also find there 4 Twelfth Night cakes made with AOC Charente Poitou butter, the classic frangipane, the greedy chocolate, the acid lemon cake and the salt flowered caramel one. Available from January 2nd.

Arnaud Delmontel
www.arnaud-delmontel.com
39 rue des Martyrs
75009 Paris
and
57 rue Damrémont
75018 Paris
Tel : 01 48 78 29 33 / 01 42 64 59 63
Open: 07am to 08:30pm but Tuesdays
Price : 4,80 € per personne

Pierre Hermé - This year the pastry chef star offers a choice of 3 Twelfth Night cakes : "Carrément chocolat" (flaky pastry, bitter chocolate ganache, crusty chocolate), "aux amandes" (flaky pastry, Almond cream) and of course the famous "Ispahan", with its oriental flavours. this rose flavoured macaroon biscuit, stuffed with rose flavoured almond cream, litchis and rasp, should make a big buzz !

Pierre Hermé
www.pierreherme.com
72 rue Bonaparte
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 43 54 47 77
Open : Monday to Sunday from 10am to 07pm, Saturday until 07:30pm
Price : "Ispahan" 3/4 persons 32 €, 6/8 persons 52 €, 10/12 persons 68 €

Macha tea Twelfth Night cake by Sadaharu Aoki
The most parisian of all Japanese pastry chef designed a cake mixing the french and japanese flavours : a flaky tea flavoured pastry, an Almond cream on an Azuki red bean paste, the all thing splashed with black sesame seeds.

Sadaharu Aoki
www.sadaharuaoki.com
35 rue de Vaugirard
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 45 35 36 80
Open : Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 07pm & Sundays from 10am to 06pm
Price : 4 pers 21.50 €, 6 pers 32.00 €, 8 pers 42.50 €

Spiced at Ladurée
This year, Ladurée Twelfth Night cake is a Gingerbread cake. For the amateurs, Ladurée offers a choice of very original charms : musical instrument miniatures - cithare, violin ou tambourin -, in very nice boxsets.


Ladurée
www.laduree.com
21 rue Bonaparte
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 44 07 64 87
Open: 08:30am to 07:30pm
Price : 4,90 € a slice

Simplicity & tradition at Paul
“pure butter” flaky pastry, frangipane with generous almonds : Paul's Twelfth Night cake is simple and tasty !





Paul
www.paul.fr
25 avenue de l'Opéra
75001 Paris
Tel : 01 42 60 78 22
Open : from 07:30am to 08pm from Monday to Saturday, 10am to 08pm on Sundays
Price : 10 € for 4/6 persons

Pistaccio flavoured cake at Gérard Mulot
The St Germain's famous pastry chef has created a frangipane na Pistaccio cream Twelfth Night cake. Its name ? "Melchior", like one of the 3 wise men.
You can also chose his Apple & Chocolate Twelfth Night cake but you'll have to order it first.

Gérard Mulot
www.gerard-mulot.com
76, rue de Seine
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 43 26 85 77
Price : 5 € per person

New flavours at Eric Kayser
A new triple flavour Twelfth Night cake, as an hommage to the Three wise men : Honey roasted apricots, Almond cream and 4 spices. A " special" very flavoured under a pure butter flaky pastry.


Eric Kayser
www.maison-kayser.com
14 rue Monge 75005 Paris
Tel : 01 44 07 17 81
Ouvert : de 8h à 20h15 sauf le lundi
Price : 21,50 € for 6 persons

Epiphanie 2008, "Lenôtre Jubilee Twelfth Night cake"
Last and not Least Lenôtre and its pastry Chef, Guy Krenzer, imagined to celebrate the Lenotre 50 years anniversary a solar and very original Twelfth Night cake.
Smashing codes and conventions, he designed the first solar shaped cake to ply the Sun king with jubilation !
Elegant, astonishing, the Jubilee cake has to be tasted like a ritual.
Lets start with the heart divine - mix of melting perfumed apples, Aix en Provence' Almond Calisson with a touch of Orange crystallized fruit to pinnacle with a stunning passion fruit exotism.

Jubilee Twelfth Night cake
6/8 pers.
Price : 45 €

The 2008 charms - « Passion », « Pleasure », « Love», « Delice » - as many emotion and sharing messages to celebrate 50 years of high greed.
The Jubilee Boxset
Hat box, surpise box ? a "Sparkling" set decorated with golden bubbles with the Jubilee 5 charms.
Price : 35 €

Lenôtre
http://www.lenotre.fr
Le Café Lenôtre Odyssey
110 avenue de France
75013 Paris
Tel 01 44 97 01 39