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Our range

Bread, croissants & pastries

Around twenty slowly fermented breads, hand-laminated viennoiserie, small-batch patisserie, and a seasonal list that follows the calendar.

Bread

4 items

Around twenty loaves, each slowly fermented from flour, water, salt and our own natural leaven. Nothing is rushed.

A round pain au levain sourdough loaf with a dark, scored crust

Pain au Levain

Our signature sourdough. A long, slow ferment gives an open, tender crumb and a deep, burnished crust.

SourdoughSignature
Two golden French baguettes resting on a linen cloth

Baguette de Tradition

Made the traditional French way — crisp, crackling crust and a light, airy interior. Best eaten the day it is baked.

Classic
A large rustic country loaf dusted with flour

Pain de Campagne

A rustic country loaf blending wheat and rye for a fuller flavour and a satisfying, lasting crumb.

Rye blend
A seeded wholemeal loaf topped with sunflower and pumpkin seeds

Seeded Wholemeal

Stoneground wholemeal flour worked through with toasted seeds — hearty, nutty and naturally leavened.

Wholemeal

Croissants & Viennoiserie

4 items

Laminated by hand with butter, then proved slowly and baked to a shattering, golden finish.

A golden, flaky butter croissant

Croissant au Beurre

Pure butter croissant, layered and folded by hand. Flaky, honeycombed inside, deeply caramelised outside.

Signature
A rectangular pain au chocolat with visible flaky layers

Pain au Chocolat

The same laminated butter dough wrapped around two batons of dark chocolate.

A spiral pain aux raisins pastry studded with raisins

Pain aux Raisins

A spiral of croissant dough, crème pâtissière and rum-soaked raisins, glazed to a soft shine.

An almond croissant topped with flaked almonds and icing sugar

Almond Croissant

Yesterday's croissant given a second life — filled with frangipane, baked again and dusted with sugar.

Pastries

4 items

Patisserie made in small batches — the kind of thing you take home for someone, or quietly keep for yourself.

An apple tart with neatly arranged, glazed apple slices

Tarte aux Pommes

Thinly sliced apple fanned over a crisp butter pastry, glazed and gently caramelised.

Three dark, caramelised canelés de Bordeaux

Canelé de Bordeaux

A small fluted cake with a dark, caramelised shell and a soft, custardy centre scented with vanilla.

A chocolate éclair with a glossy chocolate glaze

Éclair au Chocolat

Choux pastry filled with chocolate crème pâtissière and finished with a glossy chocolate fondant.

A cluster of shell-shaped madeleine cakes

Madeleines

Shell-shaped little cakes, baked fresh with a buttery crumb and a delicate lemon note.

Seasonal Specials

3 items

A short, changing list that follows the calendar — galette in January, fruit tarts through summer, stollen at Christmas.

A golden galette des rois with a scored, glazed top

Galette des Rois

Our January galette — puff pastry filled with almond frangipane, hiding a single fève. Made for Epiphany.

January
A fruit tart topped with fresh summer berries

Summer Fruit Tart

Crème pâtissière and seasonal Scottish berries on crisp pastry, made while the fruit is at its best.

Summer
A sliced stollen loaf dusted with icing sugar

Stollen

A festive loaf rich with dried fruit, marzipan and warm spice, dusted in snow-white sugar.

Christmas
Where to buy

Ready to taste it?

You will find our bread and pastries at Edinburgh delis and at our weekend markets. Au Gourmand is a working bakery, not a walk-in shop. Find our bread and pastries through Edinburgh stockists and at our weekend market stalls.