Collet: Pave au Cafe
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Today I found a street with three patisseries all located within a few minutes walk of each other - this was good! One of these was Collet, founded in 1992 by Frederic Collet. I was rather tempted by the the 'Pave au Cafe' so this is what I decided to go for.
The pastry consisted on three thin layers of extremely moist coffee sponge, sandwiched together with a rich and creamy coffee mousse/buttercream. On the top was what I would describe as a layer of florentine - sliced almonds in crunchy caramel. This was then finished with a swirl of delicious caramel icing and a chocolate coffee bean-perfect!
I found it to be fairly dense and moist, and didn't taste overly sweet- possibly due to the slightly bitter coffee flavour. This was definetely a good choice, and I could have eaten another!
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