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Visiting France is a culinary delight and that is especially true when it comes to desserts and tasty sweet treats. here we give you some of the most traditional French desserts like creme brulee as well as some of the regional desserts that bring a distinct culinary experience to each region in France. Filmed in Lille, France Wolters World for Food! Our videos focus on helping travelers know what to eat when they travel, the traditional food that you always want to eat when you travel. Copyright Mark Wolters 2026 Our Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Wolters World on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/woltersworld Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Creme Brulee, chocolate mousse, profiterole
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Oh, you know, those little choux pastries with the cream inside with the chocolate on top that you get at parties
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You're like, oh, those little cream puffs are so good. Yes, fellow travelers, it's time to talk
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Or should I say, fellow hungry travelers, it's time to talk about the desserts that you should enjoy when you come here to France
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And I'll be honest with you, there are so many desserts here. I can't make a list. It would take us days and days to days to go through it
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Also, desserts are very regional. So in different parts of the country you go to, you're going to have different stuff
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Like here in Lille, you're going to have the Tata Sucre. If you go to Bordeaux, you have the Conelle
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I mean, it's literally a regional delicacy of desserts no matter where you go
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However, I'm going to start with the kind of nationwide desserts that you're going to get anywhere you go
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Whether you're in Normandy or in Nice, you're going to be able to find these things. And a lot of times, restaurants around France tend to only have like the national desserts sometimes, especially if it's in tourist places
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So if you want those regional things, you got to go to regional restaurants. Like if you're in Lyon, you go to the Gouchon, okay
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so let's start off with the old favorites out there one you've got creme brulee you know
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that custard with the caramelized sugar on top uh you gotta crack through to crack crack boom
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through to have it that is always good no matter where you go in the country you'll be able to
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find it it is amazing but that creamy delicate silky vanilla custard in there oh so good so good
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that's one thing. Number two, and this is one of my favorites, is chocolate mousse, okay? It's a rich
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dark mousse, chocolate flavor. And the thing is, all these desserts, I need to remind you, in France
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they don't go over the top sugary like in the U.S. It's a slight sweetness, so you're not having like
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a milk chocolate. You have like a dark chocolate mousse. It's so good. And if you throw some like
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whipped cream or chantilly or raspberries on there, oh, even better on that chocolate mousse
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Now, next up, we have profiterole, or you might call them like a little cream puff. You know
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when you go to parties and they have the little choux pastry ball there that's got the cream inside
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and it's drowned in chocolate. Yeah, that's something you're going to get at restaurants as well. And it's not just for, you know, fancy, you know, parties and stuff. You're going to have
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it as a normal dessert when you're here. Next up is the Toc Toc Toc Toc, which is basically
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I would call it an upside down mini apple pie a mini apple tart And basically it has the sliced up apples in it and the tart there It just so good So good That a good like base one And you can get that at patisseries You can get that at cafes That kind of a common like street cafe kind of dessert
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You can grab lots of places. And if they have some creme fraiche or some, like, ice cream to put on the side
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oh, you will be a very, very happy, chunky, husky traveler like myself
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if you're not careful about too many. But honestly, you don't have to worry about getting too much dessert when you're here
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because desserts tend to be smaller portions here. You don't get a huge piece of pie kind of stuff
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You're getting more of a little tort slice when you're here. Now, next up, we have the hille flottante
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which is basically poached meringue that floats in vanilla custard, or they'll call it like creme anglaise
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And it is super rich, but it's super good. You'll get that. I will warn you, if you're a dripper like I am
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lean over because when you have that creme anglaise, sometimes it might drip on you and you might ruin your shirt
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and your wife might get mad at you. I'm not saying, I'm just saying, okay? And speaking of someone who gets mad at me for spilling stuff on myself, but is very loving to me at other times, one of Jocelyn's favorite ones is the mille feu
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I can't say very well. It's basically a thousand leaves. And what it is, is all this little, all this puff pastry with cream with it, all layered up
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And it is really good. It's very messy. And when you see it, it looks great. But when you kind of try to go into it with your fork, you try to shoot the cream out the side
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So do be a little bit more delicate when you are going for that one
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Now, another traditional dessert, which you're actually seeing less and less these days at restaurants, are soufflés
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And basically, they're a very hot, airy, you know, baked dessert. And it is really good
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But the thing is, it takes a lot of time to make. And if you don't eat it right away, the soufflé collapses down on itself
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So when they bring it to you, you need to eat it right away. And if you want to get the soufflé, if you see it as a dessert, I recommend you tell them, hey, I'm going to want to have this for dessert
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Since it takes a longer time to make. But they are so good. but they do deflate very quickly
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But honestly, worth it. And that deflation and time thing is why a lot of restaurants don't serve it anymore
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Now, another dessert you might get on the street is a crepe. And you know the traditional French crepes
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and you get it sweet or you get a galette, which is more of a savory kind of thing. But honestly, you get a crepe with Nutella
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or bananas and chocolate. It's a nice little street eat to get when you're there
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Also, you can go to a creperie and eat at the creperie. But if you by a main tourist site there probably gonna be somebody there making crepes right there to fold up for you for you to enjoy also very nice also you see those kind of like the waffles there too with the nutella or chocolate sauce on it a nice little uh walking grabbing nice thing to grab
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on and chomp on which is funny because in france you don't eat and walk but it's sometimes okay to
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do that with a crepe or a waffle when you're a tourist so the locals do that too um another thing
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you're going to see is macarons and macarons um you've seen them before you know the colorful french
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cookie cakes it's the french oreo but it's made with almond flour okay it has like a little jam
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or a little cream thing in the middle there you have that that's very popular very popular tourist
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to bring back as well like if you're flying out of charles de gauld they literally sell them when
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you're flying out so you can grab those to bring home so you can have a little french dessert when
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you get back home and then there's things i like to get at either a cafe or personally the museum
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cafe that they'll have in all the museums you have a nice cafe that have eclairs which is basically
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long shoe pastry. It'll be filled with stuff and they'll have things on top. I personally like the
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one I had in Lyon, which had the pink praling top on it, which is really nice, but you can do that
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Also, there's Madeline's, which are these kind of like, they look like a shell, but they're like a
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it's like a cake cookie. You're going to have that. Those are very nice as well. And of course
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there's all kinds of tarts. Like you can get a Tarte à Cétain, so a, you know, lemon tart or
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basic apple tart. You can get, you know, lemon tart. You can get pear tarts, all kinds of
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different things. It has just a nice little base there with a fruit filling in it. Super good that
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you can have that at a cafe. And a lot of times they'll sell them at grocery stores. If you want
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to grab something to take back to your apartment or your hotel and you don't want to stay too late
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at a dinner, you can have those. But these were like things you can get all over France. But I
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want to give you a few of the regional desserts that I really recommend you try when you are going
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around France because regional desserts are where it's at. So since I'm here in Lille, I'll start
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with some regional desserts here. One, you want to get the tata sucre, which is basically like
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think almost like fried dough with sugar on it and cream on it
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And it just, it's just a really happy. I mean, I think of it like my grandma's
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like old homemade fried donut on there with the cream on there, the chantilly
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Oh, it's so good. But honestly, if you're here in Lille, you got to go to Meant and get their waffles
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It's a thinner waffle. It's not those big, thick, like Belgian waffle kind of things. It's a thinner waffle
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that's got this vanilla cream in it. Oh so good So good Anyway so Lille is in the north of France so let stay in the north And if I looking in the north you go over to Normandy You want to get the Tour de Normand which is just an apple tart with custard
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Very, very nice. Because you have to realize in Normandy, they love their apples. Like they're not a beer or wine place over in Normandy
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They're a cider place when you're there. So you have that. Now, moving down the coast, let's go down to Bordeaux
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And if you go to Bordeaux, you have Canele. And Canele, basically what it is, if you see it, it looks like a little tiny bundt cake
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Like a little tiny cute little bundt cake. But what it actually is, it's custard. It's rum and vanilla custard
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And what they do is they basically caramelize the outside of it. Oh my God, it is so good
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Like you have to get that when you're there. But I will say, if you got little kids, maybe don't get them the rum one
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Get them the other one. But it is really good. Now, if you're going to be in Provence, you might want to look for the orange cookies
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The Novette cookies there. And Novette, they're based like orange blossom cookies. They're really nice
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So now if we keep coming up and we're on the east side of France, you can go to Nancy. and Nancy one of the things you really have to have when you're there is the baba rum and what
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it is it's basically like a yeast cake but it's soaked in rum like you feel it after you've had a
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good one and if you go to a good place they'll actually give you the bottle of rum to put more
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rum on top as well so that's a really tasty thing oh if you're in Alsace you're by Australia in
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Strasbourg over there celebrate the Christmas season but any time of the year you have kugelhop
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which is another yeasted cake but it also looks like a big bunk cake when you're there and it'll
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have raisins in it but that's also really good and then you also if you're going to the center
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of the country you'll see there's a lot of places you have the opera cakes which is basically layers
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that are there of coffee and chocolate and an almond sponge cake they're really really good
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and there's i mean there's honestly like hundreds and hundreds of fantastic desserts from here
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and that's just it going to a cafe to have a tart to have a you know a piece of cake or or or a
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dessert any kind of thing is great any time of the day great to meet friends and meet locals you can
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have that. I will tell you though, if you're having dessert at restaurant, you do not have a coffee
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with your dessert. The coffee comes after dessert here in France, but desserts come after the cheese
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So it goes after your meal, you've got your meal, then your salad, then your cheese, then your
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dessert, then your coffee, just so you have the right order. But honestly, eating in France is
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great no matter if it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner. But let's be honest, we all love dessert
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So what's your favorite dessert here in France or your favorite sweet treat? Let us know in the
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comments below so us hungry travelers can take a bite of more France. Anyway, au revoir from here in Lille
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