Doigts de Fée - Angel's Finger Cookies

After a delicious and quite an alluring bread, today's post is going to be an another interesting baked goodies which i crossed in a French site while i was searching for a dish name starts with 'D'. I completely fallen in love with this cookies as they ressembles quite like the Lady's finger biscuits which is much needed for making Tiramisu, but trust me the ingredients you need for making this ultimate Doigts de Fée is compeletely different from the Lady's finger biscuits. While googling, i found that this biscuits have its origin from an ancient Morroccan biscuits, which is later carried towards France. Still none is able to give exact Origin of this cookies, however its doesnt matter coz France is a multicultural country and its not a surprise at all.

Chinois aux Pépites de Chocolat/Snail Cake/Schneckenkuchen

Chinois is a traditional pastry from Alsace region of France which have its border with Germany, this snail shaped cake have its origin from Germany where its known as Schneckenkuchen aka Snail cake because of its shape. But none know about the reason behind the name Chinois which means chinese in French, this is how this yeasted bread like cake is called in France. This brioche is one of my favourite since ever i tasted it long back in a friend's place. Though this delicious chinois do exists in stores, this rich yeasted cake is very easy to bake at home. We all know that brioche dough asks for a time consuming preparation, long kneading process, but trust me this brioche cake will definitely please your tastebuds. This Snail cake makes a family sized brioche which is rolled around a pastry cream filling, to which you can add dry fruits like raisins or else chocolate chips. If you tastes this spongy,succulent Chinois, am sure you will completely fallen in love with it.

Bugnes Lyonnaises - Angel Wings

After Aligot, the popular French regional style of cheese loaded mashed potatoes, am taking you all to enjoy virtually an another popular fried pastry dough called Bugnes which is well known as Angel wings. This bugnes are a traditional sweet pastry made out of the dough that been shaped into twisted ribbons, which is deep fried later and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Though this Bugnes is traditionally present in many European cuisine with many different names, it have been incorporated into other regional cuisine by the immigrants. This pastries are eaten during the period before Lent, a religious observance begins on Ash wednesday and covers a period of six weeks before Easter Sunday. Not to forget that this Bugnes are eaten during carnival as well.

Aligot - Mashed Potato with Cheese

This month is going to be completely French cuisine. We, the blogging marathoners are kick starting this April month's blogging as a month blogging with Journey through the cuisines as this month's theme. Every year, we make sure that both April and september as a whole month of blogging marathon with different interesting themes. Again this year we are going to run with 4 weeks of blogging marathon either with regional cuisines or with International cuisines. Without any hesitation, i went with International cuisines and i picked French cuisine for this month's blogging marathon.Apart from X and U alphabets, it was quite easy for me to pick dish's names starting with remaining Alphabets.For the first day of this month's blogging marathon, i went with this ultimate cheese loaded mashed potato called Aligot. This dish is quite popular in L'Aubrac (Aveyron, Cantal, Lozère, Midi-Pyrénées) region in southern Massif Central of France.