At La Vie en Douce, chef Carole Crema creates bonbons, chocolate bars, brigadeiros.
This pleasant sweet shop, a favorite for coffee and a mid-afternoon treat in Jardim Paulista, also features a complete line of vintage sweets.
Carole Crema is renowned for keeping alive the sweet gems that graced Brazil's bountiful wedding and birthday parties of yesteryear. Her vintage sweets - cajuzinhos, made from ground peanuts; bom-bocados, delicately flavored coconut cupcakes; papos de anjo, made from egg yolks, and more - are the same which have awed generations of Brazilians, here made by a Mossiman's graduate.
An international favorite has picked up a few Brazilian accents at La Vie en Douce. Besides more traditional offerings such as carrot cake with Belgian chocolate frosting, chef Carole's cupcakes come in a version made of goiabada, frosted with a merengue with Brazil nut bits.
Easter at La Vie en Douce
The all-chocolate Brazilian Easter egg has a famous versions in the La Vie en Douce brigadeiro egg.
Soft brigadeiro you can eat with a spoon, covered with chocolate sprinkles, fills the chocolate shell in this Carole Crema specialty (see photo).
La Vie en Douce shines at Christmas time with special sweets in fun packaging. Some of the 2008 holiday attractions are the chocotone (chocolate panettone) and the alfajor panetttone, wrapped in an eco-friendly bag, and chocolate-covered fortune cookies.
Rua da Consolação 3161
Jardim Paulista
São Paulo
Phone: 55-11-3088-7172
