Biscuits made at home, with Deux-Sévrien ingredients. This is what Mélanie Leclercq, at the head of Biscuits de Melocoquelicot, is proposing, the company she created in September 2024, based in La Crèche.
At first, this activity was just a hobby. “ I’ve been cooking and baking for years, I love it”she confides.
In 2022, she decided to embark on a remote pastry CAP, for two years. But due to an incompatibility between the need to complete 14 weeks of internship and her full-time job as a medical secretary, the diploma was not issued to her. “It is not possible to open a pastry shop without the CAP, so I turned to the biscuit factory”she explains.
Products made from local ingredients
Mélanie Leclercq offers a varied range of biscuits: cookies, speculoos, Breton pucks, Poitevine pancakes, brioches, cakes, etc. “All products are made here, in my kitchen”she says. Its creations are made with local ingredients, such as Échiré butter, flour from the Bellot flour mill and eggs from the Pigeonnerie de Gascougnolles, in Vouillé. For the moment, she does not want to sell her products through intermediaries, customers place orders directly with her. To make itself known, her partner created a website and the company is present on social networks.
