#medovick

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Russian Touch in Paris

Although it’s arguable that Paris is still the capital city of fashion, Boulevard Hausmann brings you the one of the famous malls in the world like Lafeyette and Printemps, where you can find elaborated kinds of brands.

Situated on the ground floor of Printemps, Le Cafe Pouchkine brings fairytale of Moscow to the narrow streets of Paris.

French and Russian influences reflects the decor inside and one of the most important patisseries chef in the world, Emmanuel Ryon serves you amazing sweet bites.

I’ve tried the recommended, signature desert of Le Cafe Pouchkine, also known as Medovick, honeyed biscuit cake with caramel and crime fraiche inside. Although it tasted great, I have to admit that it wasn’t the best. Well maybe I wasn’t traditional enough for the Russian deserts. The atmosphere and variety of the bites definitely deserve a stop by after a sunny afternoon. You’ll sure not regret it.

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Le Café Pouchkine

I got back from Paris yesterday, so there are a few posts about my cake-related adventures to come over the next few days! First I want to talk about Le Café Pouchkine, an absolutely beautiful patisserie I went to with my sister that puts a Russian twist on its creations.

We ogled everything on display thoroughly, even though she'd sent me a link to the website already so we basically already knew what we wanted. It was all just so pretty!

In the end we chose a cake each, with the intention of splitting them so we could try them both.

This was the Medovick, apparently a traditional Russian cake, described as "biscuit au miel de sarrasin, crème sgouchonka, crème smetana". I believe this is something along the lines of soft buckwheat honey biscuit layers, sgouchonka (Russian milk jam/dulce de leche type) cream and smetana (Russian creme fraiche) cream. The flavour was definitely creamy and honeyed. It was absolutely delicious.

This was the Belizna, with "biscuit dacquoise à la noix de coco, confit de framboises, crémeux à la noix de coco et crémeux à la framboise" (coconut dacquoise, raspberry jam, coconut cream and raspberry cream). This cake was much lighter and less sweet than the other one. Both were delicious, but I think my sister preferred the Belizna, while I preferred the Medovick - she has much less of a sweet tooth than me!

To accompany our cakes there was a fabulous tea selection, but it was a hot day, and in the end we tried the morse, a Russian juice drink made with red berries. Perfect.