{"id":870,"date":"2012-08-28T00:18:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:33:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:33:44","slug":"welcome-to-st-tropez-la-tarte-tropezienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/pastry-shops\/welcome-to-st-tropez-la-tarte-tropezienne","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to St. Tropez: la Tarte Tropezienne"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been longing for months to go to St. Tropez<\/strong>, about two hours of congested traffic away from Cannes<\/strong>. While the village itself was a bit different from what I had imagined (read: disappointing), another thing made my trip worth a blog post: the Tarte Tropezienne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Tarte<\/a><\/p>\n

It is a famous cake created in the 50’s by Alexandre Micka<\/strong>, a Polish pastry chef who had moved to St Tropez. He was chosen to provide pastries for the whole of cast and staff of a movie production<\/strong> that was taking place right in St. Tropez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"brigitte<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the actors was Brigitte Bardot<\/strong> herself, who tasted (and loved) the cake, and she suggested the name “Tarte de St. Tropez”: Micka changed it later in “Tarte Tropezienne”<\/strong> and registered the recipe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The recipe has stayed the same through the years<\/strong> (I’m afraid I can’t say the same of Brigitte Bardot)<\/em>, and the “original” cake<\/strong> can be found in St. Tropez at any of the bakeries<\/strong> which are very imaginatively called “La Tarte Tropezienne”.<\/p>\n

The cake is made of a brioche<\/strong> filled with a sort of pastry cream and buttercream<\/strong> (you know, the kind of lightness you need when it’s 45\u00b0 outside), with a delicate flavour of orange blossom<\/strong>. I can’t really tell you more, because when I asked what the filling was made of, the only answer I got was: “Oh no, sorry, the recipe is a secret<\/strong>!” :-O<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had been longing for months to go to St. Tropez, about two hours of congested traffic away from Cannes. While the village itself was a bit different from what I had imagined (read: disappointing), another thing made my trip worth a blog post: the Tarte Tropezienne. It is a famous cake created in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[199,149,197,198,196],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastry-shops","tag-brigitte-bardot","tag-brioche","tag-orange-blossom","tag-saint-tropez","tag-tarte-tropezienne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}