Mousse au Chocolate and Pschitt. La Ferte Bernard, France. 29th June 2011

We were heading back north through France back towards the ferry and the UK. Camping en route as normal, we headed for the town of La Ferte Bernard (mainly because we knew that if Polly was with us we would have called it 'Farty Bernard' and she would have chuckled). It was a lovely hot day, in fact 40 degrees as we were driving. The municipal camping is slightly deceptive. You reach it by driving through an industrial estate, but it proved to be lovely. It was made more perfect by the fact that you can walk down a short path to a lovely lake. So after a swim we headed for the beautiful old town. We visited Patissier Chocolatier Michel Boucher on Rue Huisine. It wasn't the most inspirational of French patisseries.

Mousse au Chocolate and Pschitt

Continuing the adolescent humour we confess we bought the Pschitt purely for the name! It was a pastry base with a layer of lemony creme anglaise topped with white chocolate mousse. Finished with lemon icing and redcurrants. Lovely and refreshing, tart and sweet. The pastry was a bit of a let down, but by this point we were fully into blog narrative mode so maybe we're becomming hyper-critical!

Cake Rating- 6/10 Cost 2.35 euros

Second was the mousse. Really cleverly made with layers of chocolate sponge and orange mousse but with a clever hidden core of choclate mousse, how do they do that?! It was topped with mandarins. It could have been horribly sickly, but it was just nice and light, must be how the French stay so thin when there's so much yummy stuff around, they get lots of air into it!

Cake rating- 7/10 Cost 2.35 euros