Epiphany 2025: which king cake to buy? Our selection of classic or original pancakes

To celebrate Epiphany properly, nothing beats a king cake. If you can make it easily at home, it is also possible to buy it! Every year, artisans, bakeries and supermarkets compete in creativity to imagine the best cakes. Classic with almond cream, fruity, chocolatey or revisited in a flan or cookie style, discover our 12 favorite pancakes of the year!

Want to shake up tradition this year? Discover the Nicolas' flan of the kings ! With airy puff pastry, melting frangipane and an ultra-creamy flan mixture, this dessert mixes tradition and modernity.
Price: Individual share: €6.50 | Whole flan (6 people): €39

Availability: Order online from December 17, 2024, in store from January 2, 2025.
Where to buy? : Nicolas Paciello Pâtisserie (Boulogne-Billancourt and Pantin) and Maison Demarle pop-up in Paris.

And if we saw life in pink with this cake Picard ? For Epiphany, this colorful cake offers a glamorous look and a divine taste. Under a golden and crispy puff pastry, the frangipane is revisited with pink pralines and a delicious raspberry filling. A moment of pure happiness to share.

Prix : 8,99 € (promotion, 22,47 €/kg hors promotion)
Poids : 400 g
Where to buy? : In Picard stores.

To celebrate the end of work on Notre-Dame Cathedral, Nina Métayer has imagined a delicate tribute cake. With its Charentes-Poitou AOP Butter puff pastry and its frangipane delicately flavored with caramelized cinnamon, this pancake is a perfect treat.

Price: €42 (6 people)
Where to buy? : Available to order at Nina Métayer points of sale.

Pierre Hermé will delight almond lovers with his Infiniment Almond pancakewith roasted almonds, crunchy pieces and creamy cream… Here, everything is designed to enhance this essential dried fruit. A real gem to share (or not)!

Price: €8 (individual), €38 (4 people), €65 (8 people), €85 (12 people)
Availability: On order only.

What if we mixed Italy and France in a cake? Lenôtre offers an original marriage with its “Éclat de Panettone” whose frangipane is generously garnished with panettone. The most? Its tangy orange confit that awakens the taste buds! Bellissimo!

Prix : 59 €
Where to buy? : Available in Lenôtre stores.

This year, let yourself be charmed by a cake full of poetry with Monoprix Gourmet. The brand has in fact joined forces with chef Aurélien Cohen and offers gourmets a dreamy galette des rois with pure butter puff pastry and a melting frangipane which hides delicate beans, a tribute to the magical world of Antoine de Saint -Exupéry and his Little Prince.

Price: €13.50 (6 people)
Availability: In Monoprix stores, in limited edition.

On the side of Ladurationwe play the tradition card with a classic frangipane pancake. We love its golden and crispy puff pastry and above all, its rich and melting frangipane. To be enjoyed with others or savored alone.

Price: €43 (6 people) | Available by the share and in formats for 2 and 4 people.
Availability: From January 1 to 31, 2025 in Ladurée boutiques.

Fans of fruity desserts? You will love this cake Thiriet pure butter, crispy and golden topped with chunky applesauce. Both light and delicious, it will appeal to young and old alike.

Prix : 6,90 € (4/6 parts)
Taille : 400 g (17,25 €/kg)
Availability: Limited edition (30,000 units), in Thiriet stores.

The leader Jeffrey Cagnes revisits the classic galette by offering gourmets a light inverted puff pastry and a frangipane flavored with rum. The most? Its icing sugar design brings an additional touch of originality.

Price: €6 (individual), €28 (4 people), €40 (6 people)
Availability: In store from January 1 to 29, 2025.

Head to Japan with Eric Kayser's Sakura cake. This special edition combines pure butter puff pastry with frangipane cream that the chef has flavored with cherry blossom. The pancake is also garnished with juicy raspberries, a real elegant delight.

Price and format: Information available in store.
Where to buy? : Available in Éric Kayser boutiques.

What if for Epiphany 2025, we changed our habits! Discover the Royal Cookie by Laura Toddan original hybrid creation between a galette des rois and a cookie. We appreciate this soft cookie dough which contains almond-flavored frangipane and almond slivers. Inside, a lucky bean may hide a voucher for a year of L'Atelier d'Amaya jewelry and Laura Todd cookies!

Price: Individual cookie from €4.90 | 8-part pancake: €39
Availability: From January 1 to 30, 2025 in Laura Todd stores.

Combining refinement and indulgence, the maison Angelina delight fans with a chocolate cake! Between its golden puff pastry lightly powdered with cocoa and its frangipane enhanced by a thin sheet of chocolate, it's difficult to resist.

Prices and formats: Chocolate Galette: Individual: €7.20 | 4-6 people. : 42 €
Availability: From January 1 to 31, 2025 in store and to take away.