French fancies recipe

Discover 36 delicious French pastries and desserts to eat when you visit France. This guide includes macarons, eclairs and so much more.

Homemade French Fancies are a classic treat for your afternoon tea and now you can create your own at home!

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A childhood favourite of mine but extra special! Soft vanilla sponge layered with buttercream then coated in a vanilla icing and finished with a chocolate drizzle.

Buy ready-made daisies, or use a daisy cutter with fondant, to decorate these pretty fondant fancies

Bake homemade fondant fancies with our easy recipe. Madeira cake cubes are filled with buttercream and jam and topped with pastel pink icing and white stripes. For more cakes and bakes to share over a cuppa, take a look through our teatime traybake recipes.

Try these gorgeous little sponge cakes covered in icing and flavoured with lemon curd and strawberry jam. Our Fondant Fancies recipe is perfect for tea parties as they are small enough to have room for sandwiches and scones! They look brilliant on a cake stand too.

Soft, light bites of fluffy vanilla cake topped with creamy, flavoured buttercream, and drenched in fondant icing. These little delights do require some patience but are so much easier than you might think!

These recipes are sure to please. So, gather your family and friends and enjoy. Let us know your thoughts!

My guide to the best French pastries contains the most famous French desserts with recipes and tutorials on how you can make them yourself.