mer-vay-YUH / french confection
There’s not a lot new in French pastries, which is OK — when you’re in Paris, you want to eat croissants and pains aux chocolate and tartes aux pommes and all the other buttery stuff that comes out of a patisserie. But I do think these are pretty contemporary, an invention of one little shop that specializes in them — Aux Merveilleux de Fred. Basically they’re layer cakes where the layers are made up of meringues and flavored whipped cream, with some more crumbled meringue around the outside. You can get big ones, but we opted for a sampler pack of minis so we could try all the flavors.