Croissant/pain au chocolat/pain aux raisins?

[SmithsInFrance]

Following from a recent thread about the joys of the French boulangeries, which is your favourite? Mr S is firmly in the pain aux raisins category, and he's managed to convince me.
Unless there is a freshly baked brioche loaf, still warm, flaunting itself at me - now that really is heaven

 

[FIDGET]

Personally , mine's apple turnovers or citron tart

 

[Spriddler]

Pains choc for me.

 

[SmithsInFrance]

FIDGET Yes, apple turnovers are one of their better kept secrets have to agree with you there . Citron tarts delicious too, but does a tart count in this category?
Now that is something serious to think about..

 

[Googlebot]

Croissant for me. Slightly crispy outer with a soft buttery inner is best.

That said, Croissant Amande wins for me every time.

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[Lenny HB]

Plain for me, I like chocolate but hate anything chocolate flavored.

 

[WillH]

Plain croissants for me, I have to drag wife away from the patisserie!

 

[Riverbankannie]

Plain croissants or these apricot ones for me,

 

[John Barrett]

I love fresh warm croissants, but I can't understand why the locals dip theirs into their coffee!

 

[AnnB]

Almond or Apricot croissants

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[Marmite]

Definitely plain for me, but for Mrs T it's pain aux raisans

 

[Coolcats]

It is too complex to have just one favourite even a freshly baked Baguette is heavenly.

 

[Minxy]

Chocolate chip brioche .... ... although we also like the custard type pastries with fruit in but they are expensive so only get them if they've been discounted.

 

[The Wino]

I'm still doing the research as often as I get the chance.

 

[SmithsInFrance]

Croissant for me. Slightly crispy outer with a soft buttery inner is best.

That said, Croissant Amande wins for me every time.

Ooooh, I'd forgotten about those. When they are good they are divine

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[s7ev0]

I love fresh warm croissants, but I can't understand why the locals dip theirs into their coffee!

That's the best! Fresh plain croissant dipped into a double espresso - what a great breakfast!

 

[SmithsInFrance]

Plain croissants or these apricot ones for me,
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A photo is almost cruel when it is Sunday afternoon and all the boulangeries are closed . But tomorrow is another day... They look particularly delicious

 

[Lenny HB]

I love fresh warm croissants, but I can't understand why the locals dip theirs into their coffee!

Probably yesterday's stale ones.
Should really be yesterdays bread with jam on it dunked on the coffee.

 

[SmithsInFrance]

That's the best! Fresh plain croissant dipped into a double espresso - what a great breakfast!

Yes agree totally, although pain aux raisins makes a good dipper too. On another level and much more decadent than a biscuit in a cuppa (this is a personal view not a lol)

 

[Daniel. M]

Pan au chocolate for me, have to be warm though

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[Zoobec]

Pain au chocolate or Croissant Amande for me!

 

[ChrisSue]

Plain for me. Aux amandes for SWMBO

 

[Pete5996]

Pain aux raisins - the stickier the better....

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Anything that doesn’t contain chocolate

 

[Helen Ariel]

Plain. Has to be warmed and i slice the middle before heating in the oven so i can open it up and spread more butter inside so it's dripping with melted butter.

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[Nasher]

Don't do that fancy foreign food - Full English Breakfast for me (even though I live in Wales)

 

[TheBig1]

our local bakery is nearly as good as being in France. Husband and wife, he is the baker, she the pattisier and you have to get there by 8 in the morning or they sell out. There is always a queue of builders and other tradespeople. The sweet pastries are absolutely divine.

I love a pain au raisin or a pain au chocolat

I love the custard slices and the custard tarts

The fruit cake is superb, as is the manor cake

The bread is the best I have tasted in years and keeps in the brown paper bag for a few days

We may pay slightly more at the bakers rather than the mass produced junk at the supermarket, and it is only slightly dearer, £1.30 for a huge farmhouse loaf. But the quality is so much better and the taste memorable. However I try to limit our visits to once every other week, or it will be too much for a sensible diet. My next visit is now very likely to be tomorrow morning

 

[Gixer]

Warmed Croissant cut open and filled with bacon, mushrooms and if really decadent, popped back in the oven with Gruyere - yum !!

 

[Rob Hammond]

Choc for me

 

[Cherub]

We have a lovely thing up here called an Aberdeen Buttery, pronounced Ayberdeen. They are delicious. Butter and marmalade on them. They get called different things but that's what I know them as. First encountered them on holiday in Johnshaven on the East coast when I was a bairn.

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