Okay, back in blog action after a really wonderful week skiing in Chamonix. Apologies to all five of our loyal followers for the delay getting you this post on the most delicious viennoiserie according to moi — the chocolate pistachio escargot! Here’s a close up of the flaky, pastry-creamy goodness.

It does not have snails in it. Just shaped like one of the cute little guys. It’s a perfect combo of croissant dough, pistachio flavored pastry cream, and mini chocolate chips. If you like pistachio ice cream/gelato, you’ll love it. If not . . . I guess just feel sadness. It’s sort of like a pain aux raisin, except it’s good because there are no raisins.

I read somewhere that the best ones in Paris come from Du Pain et des Idees. I didn’t try every ECP in Paris, but Du Pain et des Idees’ are legit.

Du Pain et des Idees also has seasonal fruit escargots that I didn’t see anywhere else in the city and they looked really tasty. Try one for me!

Below is one that was not so good (it was fine, I ate the entire thing). If you cannot make it to Du Pain, try to get one that looks more like the Du Pain version, less like this one.

Au revoir for now. I’m almost done with french pastry blog posts. Almost.