National bread celebration week!
cake named after him. It too looks quite tasty. If I’m honest, I’d prefer to have a cake named after me than to be a saint. Hint hint…
Back to bread. French bakeries will celebrate for a week, so I decided to celebrate too — by sampling something I’d never tried before. This double-chocolate bread roll, called a baguettine au chocolat in French, is chocolate bread with chocolate chips added. It’s chewy, sweet and chocolatey. More filling than a chocolate bar, this thing is the perfect indulgent snack between meals.
For those seeking something healthier, I can recommend the baguettine aux fruits. Okay, it’s probably just as calorific as the baguettine au chocolat but surely a lot less than a standard croissant. What will you be sampling?
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Ha Ha! The photo, I’m sure, doesn’t do it justice for the taste. It does look like a giant poo! If it really is chocolate bread then I need to try it. So far I haven’t seen it in the bakery in our town. I guess I will have to wait just to be sure you aren’t fooling us and it really is a giant poo 🙂
Ashley
I didn’t even know it was National Bread Week! I’ll have to see if they’re doing anything about it in the bakeries here – particularly those on rue Saint Honoré such as Julien and Gosselin. I do have the excuse that I make my own bread and didn’t set foot out of the house yesterday …
We usually have a local village that holds a fete du pain, but haven’t seen anything advertised this year. Never seen a choco(poo) bread before – it must taste great to get away with looking like that!!!
Ashley, it’s a terrible photo, isn’t it! I’d already eaten the giant poo-shaped treat by the time I wrote the entry about it. Oops!
Aussie IF, that website I linked to lists the bakeries participating. This treat didn’t come from one of them in my region since there are so few around anyway.
Jacqui, it really does taste great. I started on the baguettine aux fruits and then saw this new addition more recently. I thought they were only available at Le Panier chain here in Haute Savoie but I saw another poo-look baguettine in Annecy the other day too. I hope you find one!