VALENTINE GIFTS: Chocolate Lips, Macarons In Red

You can actually reuse the “clutch” packaging as a fun evening bag. Photo by Faith Tomases | THE NIBBLE.   We love gifts with “keeper” boxes. We always find ways to repurpose the boxes, which continue to remind us of the gift and the giver. Pâtissier François Payard has chosen beautiful packaging for his Valentine…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Bake An Epiphany Cake

In France, the holiday season continues into January with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6th, the 12th day after Christmas. For the occasion, pastry shops are filled with galettes des rois, Epiphany cakes. (The name actually translates to kings’ cake; a galette is a flat pastry cake.) The cake is traditionally—more of an…
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VALENTINE GIFT: A Different Take On Chocolate Kisses

Chef François Payard is making it easier to send kisses this Valentines Day. Check out his Dark Chocolate Raspberry Lips. Packaged in a red clutch-shaped box, the chocolate lips are filled with chocolate ganache that has a hint of ginger, and are packaged with with a white chocolate raspberry lipstick—a real lipstick that is both…
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