Biscuit shops Rhônes-Alpes

Joyeuse macaroons have been around since the ^16th century, created from an Italian recipe, passed through the intrigues of the King of France's court and then brought back to the Ardèche by the Duke of Joyeuse. In the Maison Charaix boutique, you'll be welcomed with infinite kindness to discover this historic sweet. Take your time, look around, taste... we advise you without pushing you, we inform you without stressing you. The store also sells local honeys, other cookies and chestnut products.

Aude, from Brittany, is passionate about pastry and pancakes. It itself manufactures a range of biscuits: Maro 'ricans with chocolate nuggets, black wheat spritz, Viennese sandwiches, mini-glasses with blueberry jam… and other cakes for the pleasure of gourmets. Every year, Aude creates the event with his companion by presenting a new box on the Christmas market. These delicious biscuits, for sale at the Marolaise Break, can be enjoyed in the adjacent tea room. Don't hesitate to stop, because besides the visit of this charming village, you can take a gourmet break.

Gaudes, bressanes specialities, are roasted corn grains. The Gaudélices is a set of salty and sweet recipes based on gaudes flour. Impossible to miss, just steps from exit 7 of the motorway, this establishment as a gift package, with a small knot on the roof. A long glass corridor allows you to visit the workshops before accessing the shop. These recipes are also available in organic stores, tourist sites and motorway areas.

In the heart of Chartreuse, the greedy and love of traditional products leads us to Notre-Dame-de-Chalais. It was here in 1962 that the Dominican monials created a biscuitery to support the community. On Wednesday, it is "oven day" with each time 420 kg of biscuits. Cookies packed the rest of the week, then sold on the spot at the Monastery of the Monastery or ship throughout France. With their know-how, the sisters make and market Chalais biscuits, which, like Proust's famous Madeleine, evoke the flavors of our childhood. Natures, without eggs, without preservatives and colorants, they are perfectly digestive and perfumed with the coconut pulp, honey flower, vanilla, orange or anis. Among all these delicacies is the Round 'gold, small pure butter butter with grapes with a fine flavor of rum… That sins to make us forgive! Rajout that the ride is absolutely magnificent and the buildings grandiose. 

Le Père Craquant was a famous pastry chef from Saillans, whose real name was Jean Eynard, who operated in the 1920s. Improving on the traditional recipe for almond croquettes, he invented a cookie so good that its fame spread beyond France's borders. Today, Craquant remains crisp and delicious, and is available in four versions: plain with almonds, almonds and chocolate, and with orange or lemon peel. Also on the shelves: navettes and meringue macaroons.

Gourmet discovery of a Dauphiné biscuit factory created by Maurice Louvat in 1954 and taken over by the children Maryvonne and Gérard Louvat. Cakes, pastry meringues, coconut rocks, meringue macaroons, dry petits fours, Dauphinois shortbread, chocolate chip palets, marmalade glasses... are made by hand according to traditional recipes. We fell in love with their new creation, the "Bounty of the Alps". Guided tour, films are on the program. The shop also offers various regional products.

In a region committed to organic farming, Biscuiterie du Rozet's delicacies are free from artificial or chemical additives, and made with selected ingredients: fresh, stone-ground flour, free-range eggs, fresh butter from Ardèche... Gourmets are spoilt for choice: almond shortbread, Breton shortbread, lemon shortbread, coconut, candied ginger or walnut rochers, chocolate or raspberry fillings, speculoos, almond tuiles, meringue, chocolate almond cookies, palmiers, croq'avoine, Swiss... The latest addition: hazelnut shortbread. Retro gift box.

Since 1952, Biscuiterie Carpentier - a family-run business run by Christophe, a third-generation cookie maker - has been handcrafting cookies according to traditional recipes. Quality products and marvels to savour, starting with the traditional almond and hazelnut macaroon, and some fifty varieties of petits fours to suit all tastes. In season, there are crisp, soft bugnes, and chartreuse specialties at the end of the year. Aperitif puff pastries and cocktails. Pleasures to share.

Delicatessens sell its cookies. You can also buy them at the factory, facing the Mont Ventoux. The Bedouin family founded this farm in 1833 to produce almonds, lime, apricot pits, cherry tails. In 1997, the company became a cookie factory producing navettes, macaroons, croquets, canistrelli... Today, the 300 m² gourmet market offers direct sales of 150 home-made recipes and more than 300 local products including a selection of regional wines, honeys and jams or around the Nyons olive.

A native of the region, Simon Rouchier is now a farmer-confectioner. A former chocolatier who wanted to move into arboriculture, he decided to combine his two passions: confectionery and agriculture. On 2 hectares, he grows organic apricots, apples, plums, blackcurrants, strawberries, raspberries, redcurrants and blackberries. In his artisanal workshop, he transforms them into sweet delights: candied fruits coated in chocolate, fruit jellies, but also nectars, syrups, jams and even nougat, hence the name of his small business: Au nougat ardéchois. Gourmets melt!