The best confectioners Midi-Pyrénées

At Le Pic Gourmand, Bagnères tradition and the future merge to celebrate a unique savoir-faire. Heritage is the very essence of this confectionery, where Gabrielle perpetuates the traditional berlingot recipe. The future, on the other hand, invites innovation, guaranteeing the reputation of Le Pic Gourmand. With creations like the Bédat log, a delicious nougatine coated with dark chocolate, created in Bagnères. To be enjoyed in the tearoom with homemade hot chocolate. You can also see the passion in action with a berlingot-making demonstration!

Eric Lestable represents the third generation of confectioners in Cauterets. He has kept the traditional method and works entirely by hand. He invites you in his workshop to assist to the manufacturing of his berlingots. The success of these sweets is due to a delicate balance between the mixture of water, sugar and flavored glucose syrup. Once cooked, the mixture is poured on a marble table for cooling and cutting. The other specialities are the "crottes d'isard", the "cabrotin", the "délice" or the "boule-de-neige"... Delicious!

This company is the only almond producer cooperative in France that produces, transforms and markets its fruit for confectioners, nougat makers, chocolate makers... There is an exceptional range of chocolate almonds, calissons, dragees, marzipan, fruit jellies and biscuits. Dare the almond, the house speciality made of roasted almonds flavoured with herbs and calissons in fruit or chocolate dress. But what else? Savoury almonds flavoured with colombo, vanilla tomato, goat banon, three seaweed or spices...

In 1923, Léon Auzier founded the Auzier-Chabernac confectionery in Montpellier. The company perpetuates the craft traditions and its know-how for three generations through traditional recipes of confectionery, all using natural products. On line or in store in Montpellier and Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, you will find a large choice of sweet treats such as their famous honey licorice, gum arabic, marshmallows, sugared almonds and other sour candies. You can also order for your ceremonies.

In his charming boutique, this artisan nougat and gingerbread maker crafts his delights from regional products. The products from his workshop offer a veritable taste festival for the taste buds: in addition to the traditional nougat with garrigue honey, the flavors of tequila, pepper and pastis are a pleasant surprise. Nougat spreads and macaroons are also added to the range. Learn more about the production process from the master craftsman, and enjoy a free tasting. Recipient of the Militant du goût 2024 bronze medal.

Who doesn't know Cémoi chocolate? This group, which has been built up over two centuries around numerous family companies, has become the leading French chocolate maker, famous throughout the country for its little marshmallow bear. A video space explains the traceability of chocolate from the place of production, taking care of the quality of life of the planter by allowing small producers to live with dignity from their work, from the preservation of the environment to the transformation for a 100% French product.

For three generations, the Boudet family has kept its confectionery recipes. Alongside the thirty or so multicoloured berlingots, the other specialities of the house are enthroned: Frontignan muscat chocolate and nougatine. Winter is the time for milk pralines and vanilla-scented almond pralines, while summer is the time for the fruity scents of the berlingots: cherry, tangerine, caramel or even pine nut. Great craftsmen of taste with a very friendly welcome. A visit that will delight children and all gourmets!

At Paradis Gourmand, it's a guaranteed trip to the land of nostalgia! In this old-fashioned, colorful and cheerful candy shop, sweet tooths will find their happiness and dive with delight into the memory of forgotten flavors, those that have sweetened their childhood, because the house specializes in the reissue of traditional candies: licorice, lollipops, roudoudous, sugar strawberries, chocolate pieces, pralines, fondants, berlingots or, of course, violet pastilles or crystallized violets well from home!

This shop amazes us with its treasures. It is a small paradise of Pyrenean gastronomy and crafts. A real cave at low prices where you can find everything to please yourself or others. The treasures are salty, sweet, fruity or made by local craftsmen. Pottery, clogs, soaps, horn combs, natural sharpening stones, jams, honey, wines, beers, aperitifs, foie gras, biscuits, sweets, everything is made in Ariège or in the Pyrenees. You will discover candles and figurines made from Luzenac talc.

Ariège is a big producer of these dried fruits. This home-made confectionery and local speciality is made of a tender meringue envelope perfumed with vanilla filled with a creamy hazelnut praline, the size of a walnut and very light. The praline is made from local hazelnuts. Flocons can be found in pastry shops, bakeries and delicatessens in the department and in Toulouse. Variations: Flocons with violet and Flocons with spread, a delight of delicately crunchy, deliciously melting Flocons...

Greedy sins is a very greedy boutique, right on the sides of the place du Capitole. Here you can buy sweets that will suit everyone, both small and large. For example: pacifiers, candies, cakes, caramel, champagne and chocolates. You can also find in this Ali Baba cave jams and honey, syrups, cookies, as well as teas and herbal teas. Above all, you will find delicious delicacies delicacies, to offer for example, as candies and thés teas, pink bricks of Toulouse, Toulouse tile to praline… Nice gift ideas in perspective!

Balaruc-Les-Bains curistes no longer know where to head since 1989! Shared between the thermal spa and the Cure Gourmande, it is a true cure of youth, what I say, which has developed year after year, to open a new "station" of sweets in the ramparts of Aigues-Mortes. All the sweets and biscuits in the South of France have come to this shop. Besides the cure it is a real return in childhood that we offer the gourmet cure with its chocolates, caramel, nougats, calissons, madeleines, old in and other delicious sweets. Thanks to the products offered here, it is a little the taste of the holidays you bring to your home and that you can offer to your loved ones in nice boxes and other boxes, to be tasted without moderation. Your dentist will be happy!

Between farming, the inn and the reception rooms, Valérie has no time to dawdle, especially as she also concocts flower and rice preserves and jams that tickle the taste buds of gourmets. These sweet treats are the delight of guests at breakfast on this large, typically Provencal estate. From March to December, Valérie also offers B&B, camping and mazet accommodation in this enchanting part of the world, as well as farmhouse snacks to delight young and old alike.

A veritable Limoux institution since 1936, Maison Bor perpetuates ancestral know-how in the manufacture of nougat and chocolates. Let yourself be tempted by their specialty, the Tap de Limos, a small chocolate made with chardonnay marc in the shape of a champagne cork, or by the unrivalled creaminess of their nougats, made in copper cauldrons. The range of nougats is as varied as the packaging, sold individually, in boxes or in sachets. All our specialties are made with local, high-quality raw materials.

Manufacturer of dried fruit for aperitifs for 35 years for the attention of shops and individuals, one minute from the church of the least. In Toulouse, it is one of the rare specialists in dry fruit, dry vegetables and spices, more than 60 varieties. They are also used in pastry products, sugar, aromas, fondants, glucose, coolers, chocolates, pralins, hazelnuts, candied fruits, almond paste, etc. and accessories, decorations, fuss, gâteaux, plicate, etc., A wealth that passers-by does not always occur because of the absence of windows.

Notice to candy lovers, in the rue du Puits Neuf, Chez Nounours is an address you will find hard to resist. Notice to parents of little gourmands, this store may seem like a little paradise at snack time. In their store specialized in the sale of candies of all colors, Lydie and Kevin make the eyes of the young and the old shine. People come to fill up on sweets and they appreciate the pleasant welcome. For birthdays or other occasions, the couple makes impressive candy creations.

They are: loukoums, calissons, Belgian gingerbread breads, cakes of candy, marrons marrons and especially chocolates. It is the spécialisté of the house: chocolates are made from raw materials that will be produced in accordance with tradition. You can make your sugar and your creations for the holidays. The house has confidence, it has existed since 1975.

This brightly colored store on the outskirts of the Sanctuary is a real treat for the eyes. The shelves are overflowing with sweets, cakes and cookies. The specialty is the traditionally made shortbread and filled cookies with chocolate chips, fruit, or caramel. The navettes simply flavored with orange blossom are irresistible, but they are closely rivaled by nougats and caramels, in papillotes or squares. Marshmallows, caramelized almonds, organic spreads and meringues complete the range.

Driven by a passion for the product, tradition and Catalan culture, André Labaume opened La Confiserie du Tech in 1964. In his small workshop, he devised the recipes for the delicious Rousquille, then Croquants and Tourons. Today, it's the third generation that perpetuates and perpetuates tradition, while bringing a breath of modernity to the company. Rousquille, croquant and touron are still on the shelves, but other delicacies such as caprice, délice, couronne and mantecados have been added.

This pretty little shop offers the sweets of the Vicens house, a Catalan institution. This family business has been making artisanal turrón since 1775! The turrón, or turrón in Spanish, is a delicacy that was traditionally served at Christmas dinner. As generations pass by, it has become a habit to enjoy them all year round! The original recipe contains 70% marzipan, with honey, sugar and egg added. In the Vicens shop, you will find tablets made in the pure tradition, but also many other tempting variations. Feel free to ask the owner for advice and information.