New Chef, New Pastries, New Cravings

La Boulangerie has a new chef with many innovative and creative ideas for new pastries to bring to all our bakeries in San Francisco. From financiers to tarts, these delicacies are most definitely worth it!

Our new chef Lisa is a young and passionate culinary artist from Brittany, in the north of France, who fuses traditional techniques with modern flair, and specializes in a handful of mouth-watering traditional French goods.

She studied at the prestigious Ferrandi culinary school in Paris, and worked in Michelin stars restaurants after that, where she specialized in french pastries and viennoiserie. Today, we are extremely happy to have her in our team here in San Francisco and we can’t wait for you to try her distinctive recipes made with our incredible ingredients.

Financiers have been a staple of pastry shops for more than a century in France. Simple yet exquisite, they are lovely little French almond cakes with crispy exteriors and insides as soft as a pillow

Raspberry Financier

Our wonderful raspberry financier recipe is with roasted hazelnuts and a raspberry coulis. 

Chocolate Financier

This chocolate financier is filled with roasted hazelnuts and our delicate chocolate ganache.

Gianduja Financier

This tasty recipe is filled with roasted hazelnuts and a gianduja (hazelnut and almond mix with milk chocolate) ganache. 

Interesting fact - How Did Financiers Get Their Name?

According to history, the financier was created by a baker whose bakery was near the financial center of Paris. The little cakes were named for the rich financiers who frequented his bakery. And these cake were baked in rectangular molds to resemble the shape of gold bars.

Chocolate Tart

Tarts are Lisa’s favorite pastries to bake because as she says “they are very simple and you can do so many different flavors with them and decorate them to make them beautifully looking”, just like these chocolate tarts she presented us. These tarts are baked with a flaky buttery crust, decorated with a circle of crunchy hazelnuts and cocoa nibs praline and they are as beautiful to look at as they are delicious to eat.