Biscuiterie De Provence

A family that has worked in the trade for six generations. It began by working with dried fruits and almonds, which the local tourism office calls the region's prized ingredient, before the family created its first traditional biscuit recipes. Its workshop, La Fabrique, is in Saint-Maurice-sur-Eygues, a village in the Drôme Provençale, the southern part of the Drôme where it meets Provence, and the family selects local ingredients for its recipes.

It is a soft almond cake that the company says melts in the mouth, made with almonds in place of wheat flour. The organic almond and orange cake, for example, is made from eggs, sugar, almonds, oranges, lemon juice, fruit pectin and vanilla, and is more than a quarter almonds and a fifth oranges. Each cake is packed in a metal tin, which the company says gives it a long shelf life, and the local tourism office names this cake in its tin as the house's famous product. It can be eaten on its own or with a fruit sauce, a sorbet or a fruit salad.