The best confectioners Allier

Don't leave Moulins without the shop's unmissable speciality, the Palet d'Or. Created at the end of the last century by Bernard Sérardy, it is a bittersweet chocolate, composed of a ganache made from a mixture of chocolate and fresh cream, and lightly flavoured with coffee, with the particularity of being covered with a few flakes of fine gold. Treat yourself to their constantly renewed specialties. The shop has kept the décor of the end of the 19th century, admire the trompe l'oeil painting on the ceiling and the carved woodwork gilded with fine gold.

Sylvain, artisan patissier, chocolatier, ice-cream maker and confectioner, and his team work with raw materials selected for their high quality, in short circuits. A wide choice of products is on offer: personalized entremets, lemon cakes, candied fruit, dark chocolate, home-made frangipane cakes, palm-oil-free spreads, chocolate assortments, Christmas logs and entremets, home-made ice creams, eclairs, pièces montées, etc.

It is in this confectionery, which has kept its soul of yesteryear, that we find the famous Vichy Basin lozenge in aniseed, lemon, orange and mint versions. Also sugar-free and in mini-pastilles. Moinet produces a whole range of products resulting from a unique know-how passed down from generation to generation. Pure Auvergne pulp fruit pastes, melting mints, caramels, pralines, nougats, berlingots, real gums, fruit fondant, fruit gels, cooked sugars, chocolates, marrons glacés, candies from the Bourbonnais region and Vichy barley sugars.

Since 1887, the Laviel laboratories, confectioners and chocolate makers, have been making fruit jellies: Traditions pure fruit pulp and Fantaisies with natural fruit flavours. A range of confectionery products in boxes and bags. Vichy pastilles, barley sugar, caramels. Hard candies with the flavors of yesteryear. Filled and candied candies, honey, aniseed. For Christmas and Easter, soft and melting candies. From November to the end of January, a range of chocolates and specialties without additives. On sale directly in the factory store and at local retailers.

In his Caramellerie, voluntarily with two L's, Yannick makes real salted butter caramels, without any preservatives or thickeners, in old copper basins at his home. His range already includes cream caramels for spreading, which can be kept for at least three months in the fridge, caramel lollipops, soft caramel sweets, salted butter caramel bars to be broken, mini salted butter hard caramel bars. He also makes baskets of treats. You can find him on the markets of the region. Place your order on line.