The best confectioners Picardy

Jean-Yves Matifas, craftsman-confiseur, has been perpetuating the family know-how since 1922. Here, everything is made by hand. The berlingots are made in front of your eyes and the spinning is undoubtedly the most spectacular operation. The thickened sugar block is hung on a hook and is spun before being transformed into exquisite coloured and perfumed apple, melon, violet sweets... Pleasure for the eyes, but also for the palate, with the sugar in all its states (candy, vergeoise, coloured...) and all its forms (lollipops, berlingots, marshmallows...).

A self-taught pastry craftsman and former restaurant restaurant for large tables, Serge Leveau set up at Le Touquet to open the Gourmands Arts. What a success! Generous and creative, its preparations will surprise you and inspire you. You will be conquered by the fragrances of the macaroons and enjoy the countless colourful flashes (Fraise strawberry, saffron, Bounty, caramel…) and cakes or meringués desserts. The shop shop opens onto the shop and the smell are already an invitation to indulge.

Founded in 1881 by Henri Douvrain, confectionery has been a family business for more than a century, whose values, know-how and revenue are transmitted from generation to generation. For four generations, the candy and pacifiers of Joan d'Arc confectionery have been the result of centuries-old and immutable recipes. So with the same gestures, reproduced with the same passion as every candy takes shape. A copper sink, bronze cylinder, the final form of the candy will emerge only from a path paved with delicacies. Come and discover the specialities. des candy: perfumed pacifiers, purple, gingerbread candy, but especially the apple of love! Nothing to do with fruit, this is a flavoured pacifier. Proust had his Madeleine, the ch have their apple of love…

The Bêtise de Cambrai was born around 1850. According to the story, it is the result of a mistake made by an apprentice confectioner. Surprise: these sweets were very popular. So much so that they adopted the name of "bêtises". Here, you will discover the making of these delicacies distributed all over the world. According to the original recipe, the Bêtise de Cambrai is a white candy made of cooked and beaten sugar on which a caramel stripe is placed and which is flavored with mint.

The Léontine chocolate factory offers small chocolate sweets that will charm many. Several types of chocolates are offered and nicely arranged in a box that you compose yourself. These are far from ordinary chocolates, which will delight all gourmands as the choice is so wide. The shop also offers various decorative objects and gift boxes. Perfect to please or to offer yourself a little pleasure. A little extra: free delivery is available. The welcome is friendly and warm!

Created in 1957, this confectionery has created a range of high quality caramels, made from carefully selected raw materials and elaborated from audacious recipes. All products are certified Origine France Garantie. The speciality remains caramel, made from butter, cream and milk worked in slow cooking for smoothness, without adding preservatives. We also find chocolates, liqueurs, fruit jellies and pralines. To find out more, it is possible to visit the chocolate and confectionery workshops.

History: It is in 1925 that is born the nougat factory "Nougat Masure", whose production is intended for the fairgrounds and the cinemas. Ten years later, the sign is transferred to its current address, rue du Pré Catelan in La Madeleine. The activity expanded with the work of cooked sugar, and so did the reputation of the company. Mr. Poudanson, at the origin of the company, worked for years to train the confectioners of the Meert house in Lille, as well as three of his sons who worked there until their retirement. During half a century, the nougatery continues to turn, with ups and downs, and tasty culinary inventions as the nougat without almond and "the cream of nougat"! But in the years 1980, the wind turns and the activity beats of the wing. It is thanks to the resumption by the company Afchain in 2011, that the confectionery finds its letters of nobility. The workshop is then put in the standards and the adjoining house is renovated. Today, the nougat factory opens its doors to the public. Groups of visitors are welcomed on the first floor, companies on the second floor, for seminars with a guided tour.

Products: Except for the almonds, all the products used to make the confectionery are local: the eggs come from Arras, the sugar from Thumeries, the glucose syrup from Lestrem. The cooking is traditional and in copper cauldrons.

Advantages: The nougat can be bought directly at the shop-factory, even without visiting the shop. Possibility of tasting the different products before purchase.

Futé: To visit the workshop, visits of 1 hour, are proposed on reservation only (group rate, 15 people minimum, 4 € per adult and 3 € for the less than 14 years; individual rate: 6€ per adult and 5€ less than 14 years). At the end of the visit, a gift is offered to each visitor. And don't forget the tasting! A real favorite!

Confectionery. A douaisienne institution where you buy candy and gifts.

It is in the centre of Saint-Quentin, the main address of weddings and baptisms in the region. This respectable factory has existed since 1947. The house is known mainly for the wide range of sugar of different prices and of all colors, but also develops at the request of fine handicraft chocolate of excellent quality. A family business in the French tradition, which also knows how to get started.