The best confectioners Châteaux de la Loire

Since 2015, Cadeau et Chocolat welcomes you in its workshop-boutique in Manthelan. This artisanal chocolate factory offers 100% pure cocoa butter chocolate made on site. The artisan chocolate maker Frédéric Renard is specialized in dragées: personalized, in ballotin or in bag. But also chocolates to taste as an aperitif, or to offer on every occasion. You will also discover his trompe-l'oeil creations such as pumps, handbags or cheese trays! All in chocolate, of course! A gourmet's paradise!

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.

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!

This is a perfect place to build or rediscover childhood memories. Antan of yesteryear, chocolates, sugar… If the shop is small, the choice and quality are huge and we reserve a wonderful welcome. What you sell does not look like the candy you find in modern and trendy shops. The place is timeless, therefore timeless, and it is necessarily smashed. The compositions are beautiful. This is a recommended address to choose a little gift, because here the candy will be just as to as the flowers, unlike Mr Brel!

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.