Carp Fishing in France

Gaufres à la Flamande 
Waffles usually topped with whipped cream or powdered sugar.  
Region: Nord

Tarte au Fromage 
Light cheesecake made with cottage cheese and eggs.  
Region: all north

Tarte au Gros Bord 
Custard and sugar tart with a thick pastry border.  
Region: Pas de Calais

Tarte aux Mirabelles, aux Framboises, aux Quetches, aux Reines-Claudes. 
A range of fruit tarts made with whichever soft fruit is in season (including plums, raspberries, and greengages).  
Region: Alsace-Lorraine

Ardoise 
Chocolate covered nougatine.  
Region: Angers

Gratin de Pommes Vallée d'Auge 
An adult apple crumble, soaked in Calvados and baked with crème fraîche.  
Region: Normandy

Tarte Tatin 
Classic caramelized upside-down apple pie, ideally served hot with cream or crème fraîche.   
Region: the Loire Valley

Teurgoule 
Thick, sweet, rice pudding; baked slowly for hours in a cooling bread oven.   
Region: Normandy

Torteau Fromage 
A variation of cheesecake, usually made with fresh goat's cheese, cooked in a very hot oven so that its top becomes puffed up and almost black.   
Region: Poitou-Charentes

Cannelé 
Little moist moulded cake, flavoured with cinnamon.   
Region: Bordeaux

Noix au Café 
Pieces of walnut wrapped in marzipan and covered in coffee-flavoured chocolate.   
Region: Bayonne

Pastis Gasconne or Croustade 
Very fine pastry, folded and repeatedly layered with butter and vanilla sugar, then topped with apple slices and soaked in Armagnac. Region: Gascony

Turron/Touron 
A wide range of different marzipan sweets.   
Region: Bayonne and Basque Country

Bugnes 
Yeast-dough fritters.   
Region: Lyon

Fromage Blanc à la Crème 
White cheese with a scoop of crème fraîche and sugar to taste.   
Region: Lyon and Burgundy

Mont Blanc 
Mound of puréed chestnut topped with whipped cream.   
Region: Savoie and Dauphine

Crème Catalane 
Rich custard flavoured with lemon and vanilla.   
Region: Roussillon

Fruits Glacés 
Fresh fruit candied in sugar syrup.   
Region: Provence

Marrons Glacés 
A great treat of autumn, fresh chestnuts candied in vanilla-flavoured syrup.   
Region: Provence

Nougat de Montelimar 
A hugely popular white nougat made from ground almonds, egg whites, honey and syrup.   
Region: Montelimar

Nougat Glacé 
Frozen honey and almond desert.   
Region: Provence