# The best French desserts

The great classics of French pâtisserie and grandmother-style desserts, the ones that appear in every ranking and poll of France's favourite desserts.

- 48 votes · 18 items
- Feb 25, 2025 · rennesbaguette
- https://even.best/en/l/11/the-best-french-desserts

## Top 15

1. **Crème brûlée** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Vanilla custard baked in the oven and topped with a thin layer of torched caramelised sugar.
2. **Tarte Tatin** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Upside-down caramelised apple tart, attributed to the Tatin sisters of Lamotte-Beuvron (Loir-et-Cher).
3. **Mille-feuille** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Three layers of puff pastry and two of pastry cream, with white icing marbled with chocolate.
4. **Rum baba** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, often served with whipped cream.
5. **Cherry clafoutis** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Dessert from Limousin: cherries (stones in) baked in a flan batter.
6. **Far breton** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Dense Breton flan with prunes, made of flour, eggs, milk and butter.
7. **Chocolate mousse** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Melted chocolate and whipped egg whites, nothing more; on the podium of France's favourite desserts.
8. **Chocolate fondant** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Cake with a molten centre, first in the ranking of French people's favourite desserts in several polls.
9. **Paris-Brest** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Ring of choux pastry filled with praline mousseline cream, created in 1910 as a tribute to the cycling race.
10. **Floating island** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Poached egg whites floating on crème anglaise, drizzled with caramel.
11. **Profiteroles** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Small choux buns filled with vanilla ice cream and covered in hot chocolate sauce.
12. **Opéra cake** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Coffee-soaked Joconde sponge, ganache and coffee buttercream, chocolate glaze; a Parisian pâtisserie classic.
13. **Canelé from Bordeaux** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Small rum and vanilla cake from Bordeaux with a caramelised crust and soft centre.
14. **Macarons** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Two almond shells and a ganache, popularised by Ladurée and Pierre Hermé.
15. **Chocolate éclair** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Long choux pastry, chocolate pastry cream and fondant icing.
16. **Kouign-amann** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cake from Douarnenez with laminated, caramelised butter and sugar.
17. **Lemon meringue tart** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Shortcrust pastry, tangy lemon curd and golden Italian meringue.
18. **Crêpes** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Thin sweet wheat pancakes with butter and sugar, jam or Nutella; the queens of Candlemas.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.