Every year chocolatier Jean-Paul Hevin consistently comes up with the most innovative twists on the traditional Easter chocolate eggs and chickens.
Hevin's stupendous giant egg covered in tiny turtles was astonishing.
His half eggs filled with smaller eggs, a heart and key are for romantic shoppers. Easter is not just for kids in Paris.
Fauchon serves up champagne with a giant 'prestigious' egg - rather silly in my opinion.
Very witty indeed these 'avocado' chocolate eggs from Des Gateaux et Du Pain.
Chocolatier Jacque Genin does chocolate bunnies that look like chickens that look like eggs...sort of.
At Hugo et Victor an 'eco chic' bunny with green ears.
La Grande Epicerie spots their bunnies and chickens with red stripes and dots.
Georges Larnicol is filled with enormous eggs
His poule/chickens are laying fried eggs for a change.
Where's the chocolate bacon?
Perhaps you would prefer not to focus on chocolate this holiday?
For mind over matter.
Certainment this chicken would like to avoid chocolat altogether.
POUIC POUIC!
POUIC POUIC!
what a great post. I always love to visit your blog. I miss Paris so much and you bring it to me. Thank you. Grace
ReplyDeleteSo much more enjoyable to see than the run of the mill standards readily available here.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely wonderful... chocolatier magic!!! Happy Easter Carol.
ReplyDelete"Such a Yummy Post"! Oh to visit that chocolatier!!! The decadence is a bit overwhelming!
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you,
Donna
Wow, those chocolates are amazing!
ReplyDeleteI love the Hevin's especially, but they are all great.
ou have le bon gout Nikon!
Deletehe is THE TOP in Paris!
Paris during Easter is the yummiest!!!
ReplyDeletePoor Monsieur rooster being drenched in dark chocolate...
ReplyDeleteI can think of worse fates..I guess
lucinda my name is lucinda larnicol as in Maison Larnicol where are you?
Deletehello lucinda i am also lucinda lucinda larnicol as in maison larnicol
Deletewhere are you?
lucinda, where are you? Not St Malo I hope. Lucinda Larnicol
DeleteBonjour Lucinda
DeleteLucinda et PB son le meme choise :)
J'adore les Kouign Amann
Carolg
LURVE the chocolate 'fried eggs'
ReplyDeleteThat has to be a first anywhere!
Delightful - thank you for your most enjoyable blog which I regularly read to keep up the memories of Paris. Love the bunnies and chickens with red dots and stripes. Have a very happy Easter.
ReplyDeleteThe chocolate shops certainly compete to have the most unusual chocolate eggs and bunnies. The turtles all over the egg shape just looked a little creepy to me. BTW I just finished Murder At the Red Lantern by Cara Black and it was a fun read that took me to places in Paris I never knew existed.
ReplyDeleteI, for one, would LOVE to focus on chocolate this Easter. In fact, I invested in 2 chocolate bunnies - one for me and one for the Master - just a few weeks ago, when I shopped for my son's Easter goodies. Now, if I could just remember where I hid them.....:-(
ReplyDeletevery clever, these humans. Some of those are excellent. I'm kind of partial to the chocolate avocados!
ReplyDeleteFantastegg!
ReplyDeleteJean-Paul Hevin's hen ends rather like a fish or am I wrong?
WoW! and again WoW!
ReplyDeleteWell, I kind of think the idea is to focus on Chocolate ;) Happy Chocolate Easter To You!
Hugs
Kikka
Yes....it's all pretty amazing stuff....who eats it all??? Your photos have captured it all!
ReplyDeleteYum! I'm hoping the Easter Bunny puts chocolate in my basket this year...last year he gave me gum. GUM?!
ReplyDeleteFriday @ noon:
ReplyDeleteI imagine you busy painting eggs! ;-)
xxx
Oh Carol, I have loved seeing all of your Parisian pre-Easter posts, and wish that I could have been looking right over your shoulder (or Bear's which would have been perhaps easier,) at the delights with which I'd have been tempted to break my Lenten no-chocolate vow.
ReplyDeleteOnly one day to go now. xo
Everything was yummy until that final image of the dripping chicken. In addition to being hilarious, I was reminded of when I was a teen, in South Jersey, working on farms...
ReplyDeletevaccinating thousands of chickens, most of whom had that same look on their faces.
There are worst things than getting vacinated one would think, ahem
DeleteI don't know how you eat chicken after that experience...
PS
DeleteThe French are very good at looking at both sides of the coin..so to speak.
Thanks for the pictures of Easter in Paris...wish I was there.
ReplyDeleteSince looking at the photos of the shop windows of the Jean Paul Hevin window I wonder how these traditions got started...the eggs, bunnies, hunts, bonnets, and so on. But then I realise that I have been cultivating something similar at this time of year. I have just finished watching Chocolat, which I watch every year during the Easter weekend ..... it just seems to be the movie to watch at this time of year. It has everything anybody needs .... French countryside, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, chocolate and last but not least....new beginnings.
So every year at Easter, after watching this movie, I look to the future and hope for all mankind to give up their old ways of doing things and find new and better ways of really living their lives the way they were meant to.
Love your blog
Alan from Johannesburg
Just loved the chocolate eggs and chickens and especially the avocado Easter eggs. I know you might have thought of us when you saw that one. Thanks for including it in your issue. Don't suppose the chocolatier has a post card or poster of that great idea.
ReplyDeleteHowever did a Paris chocolatier come to the idea of an avocado? What a great idea!
That would make a pretty great Easter card, wouldn't you say?
Thanks very much. We enjoyed it lots!
Peter
It would indeed Peter.
DeleteThat's what they do in Paris.
Figure out new surprising things to do with chocolate that knock our socks off and send them spinning 'round the room.
voila!