Tropezienne

 The tropezienne 

Saint-tropez city

The Tropézienne: What is it?

The Tropezienne is a cake made from a sugar brioche cut in half lengthwise and filled with two creams: butter cream and pastry cream.

A traditional Tropezienne

How to eat a tropézienne?

The Tropezienne can be eaten at any time, as you wish, as a dessert, as a birthday cake and many others. You can find other forms of tropézienne than the original one, while keeping the recipe of the traditional one. Indeed, there are several flavors and very well known by the way as the tropézienne with chocolate, raspberries and many others.

 

What about its history ?

This recipe was created by Alexandre Micka, a Polish pastry chef who settled in Provence in the 1950s. The name of the Tropezienne was given in 1955, during the shooting of the film "Et Dieu créa la femme", which was shot in Saint Tropez. It was Brigitte Bardot, famous actress in this film, who asked him to give it the name of Saint Tropez.