# The best French viennoiseries

France's favourite viennoiseries, according to polls (pain au chocolat and croissant on top) and bakers. 'Chocolatine' counts as pain au chocolat; no debate here.

- 25 votes · 12 items
- Apr 9, 2025 · Quentin Bonnet
- https://even.best/en/l/82/the-best-french-viennoiseries

## Top 10

1. **Pain au chocolat (chocolatine)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Laminated yeast dough with two sticks of chocolate; the favourite pastry of 43% of French people in a University of Lille poll.
2. **All-butter croissant** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Pure butter croissant (straight, while the ordinary one is curved), flaky and golden.
3. **Pain aux raisins** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Swirl of laminated dough with pastry cream and raisins.
4. **Chausson aux pommes** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Puff pastry turnover filled with apple compote.
5. **Brioche** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Dough rich in butter and eggs; the Parisian brioche à tête is the classic.
6. **Kouign-amann** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Speciality of Douarnenez, butter and sugar laminated until caramelised.
7. **Pain suisse** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Laminated brioche dough with pastry cream and chocolate chips.
8. **Chouquettes** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Small choux puffs sprinkled with pearl sugar, sold by weight in bakeries.
9. **Brioche aux pralines** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lyon brioche with crushed pink pralines.
10. **Oranais (abricotine)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Puff pastry, pastry cream and two apricot halves.
11. **Almond croissant** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Day-old croissant filled with almond cream, rebaked and topped with flaked almonds.
12. **Tresse au sucre** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Braided brioche covered in pearl sugar.

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.