Breaking into a piñata may be more lively, but there's the same element of fun spilling the chocolate friture and candied eggs out of a poisson d'avril, a prelude to the cocotte de Pâques..
This poisson d'avril which we bought yesterday is a simple milk-chocolate child pleaser; more serious chocolate lovers would prefer a higher-grade and more noble chocolat noir. Recommended Parisian chocolatiers that also sell online(!): Marquise-de-Sévigné, Patrick Roger or Jean-Paul Hévin.
Vocabulary
une cocotte de Pâques: an Easter hen
un poisson: a fish
un poisson d'avril: an April Fool's day prank; chocolate or cut-out paper fish
une friture: a small fish, here chocolate fish
Text & photo ©P.B. Lecron
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