The best confectioners Pays De La Loire

The inescapable cookie factory recognized as a quality artisan! Pierre and Géraldine are always innovating: raspberry-white chocolate cookies, peach-caramel-salted butter shortbread, rhubarb-almond slivers, crunchy biscuits, palets, meringues, prefou or salmon-dill shortbread, the delicious chocolate-caramel fondant heart, the good brioche. Our flagship product, caramel, is available in a chocolate truffle, peanut or banana flambé style. All homemade with exceptional regional raw materials (including the island's fleur de sel) without preservatives or artificial coloring.

Inspired by the opera Rigoletto, the Nantes confectioner Charles Bohu had named his cat Rigolette in homage to the jester. The feline gave its name to the sweets invented in 1902, composed of a thin sugar shell steamed filled with fruit pulp and then frosted. The 5 original flavors are still there (lemon, tangerine, raspberry, blackcurrant and pineapple), completed by those with flowers (poppy, violet, rose, hibiscus), seasonal fruits (fig, grape), or salted butter caramel or praline. There is also a range of regional sweets, such as Berlingots, Ducs de Bretagne or Pavés nantais. Nice too this P'tit Rigolo with melting chocolate and salted butter caramel!

Anyone who does not know this venerable house has never been to La Baule! This candy shop has been an institution since 1937! All the children have come to get sweets in this beautiful shop overlooking the embankment. Not to be missed: the niniches, a kind of delicious soft lollipop made of flavoured caramel, the Bauloise with salted butter caramel or the Caramanuel. The home-made ice creams and cones are amazing and the waffles are delicious. On the confectionery side, an incredible number of sweets and caramels are waiting for the gourmets. An address not to be missed!

Who doesn't know this institution of La Tranche, a paradise for gourmets (young and old) who come from generation to generation to the Confiserie Laurent, created in 1929! The sparkling Tata Bonbec offers delicious confectionery (barley sugar, red nougat, caramel,...), berlingots whose sugar is worked under your eyes with demonstrations in summer. In the summer, the 54 flavors of ice creams elaborated by a master ice-cream maker make the happiness of the families, just like the very good pancakes, waffles, doughnuts, pancakes, to taste on the spot or to take away.

Nestled in the heart of Nantes, not far from the Church of Sainte-Croix, Maison Lemaître offers gastronomic treasures where exceptional regional specialties combine undiscovered products elsewhere. Since 1937, Lemaître House has been offering many products, including delicious candies, in its cellar of the Belly. With more than 5,000 references on 250 m ², this historic fine grocery store is happy for nantes. Specialties first, such as grisettes or Cluzel chocolates. But also fruit pasta, drags, salty butter caramels, inevitable berpgots, in short confectionery confectionery, box or detail. The fine grocery store offers a wide choice among the pastures, terrines, olives, tapas, salted biscuits, peppers, sauces, creams, candies, spices, spices, mustards, rice, pasta… Lemaître House is also a generous offer of fine wines, spirits and spirits, regional, French and international specialties. This is precisely a step summarized through the motto of this exceptional sign: ' What is rare deserves to be shared '.

The Chocolatier Sablais, in addition to its vast boutique, also opens the doors of its production site for guided tours with the program, the discovery of the profession of chocolate maker, the origin and manufacture of chocolates, cookies and candies. After watching the film, you can visit the shop and all the delicacies made on site. More than 250 references of chocolates, pralines and homemade sweets. In addition to chocolates by weight, mouldings, chocolates with various alcohols, truffles, pistols, biscuits.

Since 1920, family-run Le Roy René has been delighting us with specialties straight from the South of France, in Aix-en-Provence. Directly inspired by our Good King René, who, according to legend, received at his third wedding a smile-shaped confection, commonly known today as a calisson, a mixture of crushed almonds, candied melon placed on a wafer leaf, topped with icing. But this is not the only speciality on offer: there are all kinds of nougats (pistachio, black, white), shortbread cookies and fruit jellies, all handmade to preserve traditional know-how.

Installed since 1827 on the promenade of the port of Le Pouliguen, the Confiserie Mignon perpetuates, with the daughter of the current owners, the 6th generation of confectioners with the same artisanal recipes. The manufacture is done in front of the public: observe these niniches which are worked only for you! Attention, with almost 35 flavors, it will be very difficult for you not to crack. Other flagship confectionery, berlingots (8 to 10 flavors), caramels (hard and soft) with Guérande salt, nougat, nougatine ... The other shop offers ice creams and waffles.

Ali's cave could have been called the attractive boutique near the Talensac market. Dedicated to the culinary specialties and gastronomy of the region, you will find to drink, eat, offer! This beautiful space is first a journey in the past, which has not known these white iron boxes illustrated by this little boy encasquetté and his great cape to wind or his bowl of of the Pornic on which one can have his first name burned. Make no mistake, the adult you are not forgotten, far from it. To quote all the products available is an impossible task, but the amateurs of Troussepinette, Malvasia or Nantillais will find their elixir. Lovers of Salt will find Belle Erp products, fish soups, salicorne, small Mouzillon and of course salt from Guérande… And for sweet sweets, treat yourself to caramels in salted butter, Bonbons'O Salt candy and jams to the éclats of small butter, boxes of Small Butter, Patties Saint-Michel or the nantais cake, from the Hearts of Butter to Caramel butter, from rigolettes, from the sampled in. The boutique offers a variety of coffrets of nantaises delicacies that are already ready or to be realised. It also sells stickers and crockery at the comfort Breizh. Here are gift ideas for yourself or offer all the year, it's LU and it's seen!

Benoît is not only renowned for its chocolates, but also for its macaroons. Here, the famous almond cake comes in a wide range of flavors: vanilla, chocolate, coffee, rose, praline, caramel, tea, raspberry, blackcurrant, pistachio, lemon... There's something for every taste. And let's not forget the other delicacies on offer: chocolate pastries, tarts, cakes, jams, marrons glacés, calissons or coffee and hot chocolate, as the place also doubles as a tea room. A moment of delight not to be missed!

In, chocolates, pacifiers, purple, caramel, liquorice, marshmallows, tart… To visit the factory and to assist in the manufacture of all these wonderful candies, it is in Boufféré (Vendée) that you have to go - but to taste them and bring a tailor-made assortment, the store of Saint-Herblain is open to you. An indispensable address to rediscover all the flavours, shapes and colours that marked our childhood. At Goodness Pinson, confectionery maker since 1860, the real sampled in are still made to the old, cooked in copper cauldrons and worked by hand. For the most beautiful occasions, the sugar are extended to chocolate, almonds, heart shape… Among the 500 references made by this emblematic establishment, you will find what to do with the pleasures of all generations, at particularly interesting prices. For fine gifts, some compositions are presented in beautiful Belle Epoque or romantic designs.

The gustative quality of Christophe Lopez's caramel is recognized by all fine palates. Available as a spread or in soft caramel candies, it is not the only delicacy, as you will find in his shops, chocolates, marshmallows, homemade nougat and macaroons with multiple tastes and colours (pistachio, praline, champagne, rose, tangerine, blackcurrant, violet). Other shops are located in Les Herbiers, Les Halles des Sables-d'Olonne, Fontenay-le-Comte, Challans.

The paradise of candy lovers! Here at the factory of the Confiserie Bonté, confectioner since 1860, you can visit and watch the manufacture of the famous berlingots of our childhood, chocolates, nougats, lollipops, violets, honey pastilles, caramels, liquorice, marshmallows, sour... The real berlingots from Nantes are made the old fashioned way and are worked by hand. With a choice of 500 references, sweets in bulk, at particularly interesting prices.

Colors, flavours and especially an incredible diversity of products: the reputation of this small shop of rue Plantagenêt is not any more to make. The brand is specialized in the sweet one but also proposes spices, rices of great originals, Indian lentils... As for sweetened temptations, difficult all to enumerate with this pasta of fruits, artisanal jams, dragees, almond pastes, pistachio, nuggets of chocolate, dried fruits or candied, powders and sliced thinly, dragees, syrups, food colourings... In short, very to endorse the panoply of perfect the small confectioner! And to facilitate even more the life to you, a wide range of utensils is presented to the sale. The advices, finally, are exempted with generosity and conviviality.