When a pastry chef makes a mistake–and a pastry masterpiece is born!
The Sweet Mistake: the fascinating story of the Tarte Tatin, a French pastry icon born by accident. Discover it on our blog!
The sweet mistake is called Tarte Tatin.
It was the late 19th century in a small hotel in Sologne, France. The Tatin sisters, Stéphanie and Caroline, were famous for their home-style cooking – especially their apple pie. But one day, something went wrong.
Today, the Tarte Tatin is a symbol of French pastry.
It was the late 19th century in a small hotel in Sologne, France. The Tatin sisters, Stéphanie and Caroline, were renowned for their homemade cooking—especially their apple pie. But that day, something went wrong.
Stéphanie, overwhelmed by haste, began caramelizing the apples in butter and sugar… but forgot to line the baking tin with pastry! Not wanting to waste everything, she quickly covered the apples with a disc of puff pastry and put it all in the oven, hoping for a miracle.
The result? A masterpiece. An upside-down cake with a unique taste – crispy and tender at the same time that immediately won over the customers.
Thus was born the Tarte Tatin, today a symbol of French pastry and one of the finest examples of how a mistake… can become legend.
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