Aux Désirs de Manon

Aux Désirs de Manon Sachet, watercolor, 9" x 11"

Not every patisserie is going to put your prize pick into a gorgeous green box. In fact if you're buying just one item you may be fighting a losing battle to get a pastry box.

I've admired the windows of Aux Désirs de Manon each time I visited the Marais.

This pink and green number of course caught my ever color-conscious eyes, the "Delice Cassis".

Cassis is French for blackcurrent berries. The provençal town of the same name makes a liquor used in the delicious aperitif, the Kir Royale.

All Paris is coming up with a new ways to use macarons. I fell for this pink circle of créme de cassis mousse with green pistachio macs girding it's sides. Would they protect it on the Metro ride home to the 7th in the flimsey folded paper sac-thing they insisted on giving me?

The Cassis Delice made it back to my hotel intact. But I spotted a free hotel computer and neglegently flung it aside :(
The Delice was smushed. Still I wolfed it down anyway. A "Manan" Delice Cassis with a macaron askew - not all isnperfect in Paris. But it surely tasted perfect!

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