Éclair shells fresh from the oven, showing the ridged piping and split sides of well-made pâte à choux
Toronto & the GTA

Pâte à choux, made properly.

One bake a week, in small batches, from a home kitchen in Toronto. When the week sells out, it sells out.

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Orders close Wednesday, 11:59 pm
Bake Saturday
Pickup Sunday, 12:00–3:00 pm
La spécialité

The Choux Counter

Pâte à choux is the whole reason this exists. Piped, baked, and filled the morning of pickup — never the night before, because a choux shell holds its crisp for about six hours and then it does not.

Vanilla Bean Éclair

Vanilla Bean Éclair

$6.50
Éclair à la vanille

Madagascar vanilla crème pâtissière, fondant glaze. The one everything else is measured against.

each
Dark Chocolate Éclair

Dark Chocolate Éclair

$7
Éclair au chocolat

64% Valrhona crémeux, cocoa nib craquelin, hazelnut praline.

each
Craquelin Cream Puff

Craquelin Cream Puff

$5.50
Chou craquelin

A cracked sugar lid baked onto the shell so it shatters instead of squashing. Filled to order.

each
Paris-Brest

Paris-Brest

$14

Hazelnut praline mousseline in a ring of choux, toasted almonds on top. Made for sharing and rarely shared.

each
Profiteroles

Profiteroles

$18

Six shells, vanilla cream, warm chocolate sauce poured at the table.

box of 6
Chouquettes

Chouquettes

$9

Bare choux, pearl sugar, nothing inside. The one you eat walking home — and the only one on this list that is shelf-stable.

bag of 12
La semaine

One bake a week, and the week never moves

Everything is made in a single run, so the schedule is fixed and public. If you know the rhythm, you never miss a week — and if a week is full, it is genuinely full.

Sun
8:00 pm

The menu goes up

Whatever the week is built around gets posted. Subscribers see it first.

Mon–Tue
Closed

School

No orders, no messages answered, nothing baked. This is the part that makes the rest possible.

Wed
11:59 pm

Orders close

What is in is what gets baked. Nothing is added after this — it is why Thursday is one shop instead of four.

Thu
Morning

Market

One trip, quantities taken straight off the order list. Cream, butter, chocolate, flour.

Fri
Evening

Mise en place

Craquelin rolled, praline ground, pastry cream cooked and chilled overnight.

Sat
All day

The bake

Choux piped and baked. Shells stay unfilled — a filled shell has about six good hours in it.

Sun
12–3 pm

Filled & collected

Filled to order in the morning, collected in Downtown Toronto between noon and three.

Le programme

The Weekly Box

One box, one bake, every Sunday. The lineup rotates — you find out what is in it when the menu goes up on Sunday night. Subscribers get first refusal before the box opens to everyone else.

La Petite

La Petite

$22/ weekly

Four pastries, whatever the week is built around. Enough for one person to feel spoiled.

La Classique
Most ordered

La Classique

$38/ weekly

Eight pastries across the week’s lineup, always including at least two choux. The one most people settle on.

La Grande

La Grande

$68/ weekly

Sixteen pastries. For a table, an office, or a household that does not share well.

Pause or cancel any week · No charge until the week’s box is confirmed

Les événements

A croquembouche does not survive a car. It gets built where you are.

Dessert tables, wedding towers, and celebration cakes for events across Toronto & the GTA. A small number each season, booked well ahead, because each one takes a full day and there are only so many of those in a term.

Lead time
4 weeks for events, 3 weeks for cakes
To hold a date
30% deposit and a signed agreement
Delivery
Priced by distance across the GTA — quoted up front, never at checkout
Enquire about a date
A croquembouche — a tower of choux bound in caramel
A dessert table laid out for an event
Petits fours arranged on a tray
Trays of choux buns cooling after the bake
La pâtissière

Alisa trains at George Brown. This is what she does after class.

She is two years into the Baking & Pastry Arts Management program, in a kitchen from seven in the morning most days, being graded on her hands. Choux is the thing she kept going back to — the dough that has to be cooked twice, dried on the stove, and read by feel rather than a timer.

Everything here is made in one bake a week, in a home kitchen in Toronto, in quantities one person can genuinely stand behind. That is not modesty about scale. It is the reason the shells are still crisp when you get them.

Training
George Brown
Specialism
Pâte à choux
Kitchen
Toronto
Bakes
Once a week
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