Because it's not just the muhalabieh and the namouras in life, here is our ranking of the 10 best galettes des rois, tested and approved by the team over the years! As criteria for this ranking: the pancakes must be affordable, digestible, subtle and of course delicious. Ready for the coronation? Let's go!
Edit 2025: The top is updated every year, and we have enhanced it again this January, guaranteed without PR, without conflict of interest and solely on the basis of our passion for galettes.
N°10: The infinitely almond galette from Pierre Hermé
The almond galette from Pierre Hermé is a safe bet: puff pastry, grilled almond cream, and roasted almond slivers nestled in the heart of the galette, under a deliciously gourmet layer of almond cream. A high-flying delight, and zero risk taking, you will be sure to satisfy all your guests!
The price: 35€ for 4 people.
The variations: pistachio, grapefruit lemon, and caramel chocolate brioche.
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N°9: The frangipane galette from Quignon
In the super generous genre, we find the very effective galette from Quignon, the bobo bakery in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Tested, approved and not stingy in quantity. A small detail for small eaters: it's very generous, not too expensive and it could have been a little more subtle, but it fills its stomach.
Price: we paid about 30€ in the bakery for a cake of about 6-8 people as a souvenir.
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N°8: The almond galette from Yann Couvreur
Once again, we are on a safe bet with Yann Couvreur who has the advantage of making fairly digestible pastries in general. Understand by this: not too heavy and which are digested quite easily, while being super greedy. And his galette des rois is no exception to this rule: a melt-in-the-mouth almond cream, deliciously sweet hidden under a perfectly crunchy puff pastry, although a little sticky on the palate.
Apart from this side a little pot of glue of its puff pastry, it is almost perfection for this galette. Simple, effective, not very expensive and delicious, in short, nothing to complain about.
Price: €28 for 4 people.
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N°7: Almond – orange blossom galette from Maison Aleph
We were already a fan of their bird's nests, and we are just as good with their almond / orange blossom galette des rois. With its oriental caramelized filo pastry puff pastry, garnished with a pure almond cream flavored with orange blossom, you will be sure to be a hit with this galette des rois (or viziers), without either take too big a risk with their pistachio or sesame / halva galette, which we will leave to the more adventurous and other lovers of the thousand and one nights! With this orange blossom almond galette, you will nevertheless be a little more original than the average, while being on an accessible and delicious product.
Price: €29 for 5 people.
Variations: chocolate, pistachio and sesame halva.
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N°6: Almond galette from Angelina
Having tested the almond galette but also the choco-chestnut galette in 2022, I have never been disappointed by Angelina. Here, no risk-taking, and we are on a premium quality but accessible in terms of prices.
Price: 29€ for 4-6 people
Variations: chocolate-chestnut (very good, but be careful, it's fat!) and pistachio.
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N°5: The queens & kings galette from Frichti
As unlikely as it may seem, every year, Frichti releases an absolutely delicious galette des rois, worthy of the very best local bakeries, at an unbeatable price.
€14.99 for a galette for 6 people, with often special offers of up to €50%, delivered to your home, and without any frills.
This is probably the best value for money, apart from Picard's which also seems to be a great success. The cake is simply perfect and perfectly simple. We therefore thank the CBAF, the Collective of Anonymous Bakers from Frichti, at the origin of this devilishly good and inexpensive product!
Edit 2025: after some research, Frichti seems to have called on Seeds of Creators, and having tested it again this year, it is once again flawless, the cake is absolutely exquisite.
Price: €14.99 for 6 people
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No. 4: The king cake from Union Boulangerie
Union Boulangerie was already unanimous with their cookies, and their galette des rois lives up to their reputation. A delight in the mouth, without too much damage on the plate via a successful puff pastry but above all, a deliciously melting almond paste, generous and not at all disgusting unlike some cakes that are a little too heavy after a few bites. This seems to be the best compromise at an affordable price, and all while trusting a serious and qualitative brand, far from the “neo-buzz” bakeries calibrated for Instagram.
Price: €30 from memory in the bakery.
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No. 3: The galette from Panade
What can we say about this absolutely exquisite king cake, other than that it is absolutely exquisite.
From the first bite, the tone is set: an airy and crispy puff pastry, worked with the precision of a goldsmith, which crackles delicately under the tooth. This buttery puff pastry, golden to perfection, plays hide-and-seek with a creamy almond frangipane in perfect balance.
This galette by chef Merouan Bounekraf, as famous for his cooking talent, combining technique and creativity, as for his troublemaker spirit, is clearly one of the best of 2025, and that is why we added it to this ranking by updating this article.
Price: €39.99
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No. 3 Ex-aequo: The Kreme cake
Far from the bobo-centred Parisian tumult, the Kreme pastry shop in Montrouge offers pastries that move the whole south of Paris, and their galette is no exception to the rule. Our test was so conclusive that we had to resolve to add them in joint 3rd place in this ranking. A perfect frangipane, generous, melting in the mouth, not disgusting for a penny, and since we are talking about a penny, at a price again accessible, around forty euros for 6 if we remember correctly.
So if you are passing through the former Montrougian stronghold of Coluche and Renaud, the former "independence of the Porte d'Orléans", stop to taste the wonderful galette des rois from Kreme, and their delicious pastries in general , but without the coffee, signed Nespresso, not up to the taste.
Price: €40 from memory in the bakery.
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N°2: The Frosted Factory galette
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We were already completely fans of their Habibi ice cream (a killer), their chestnut flavor, their caramelized cashew nuts, their date and orange blossom flavor… and many other flavors the enumeration of which would be useless and tedious (it's the epiphany after all, we can make a little wink to the three kings).
Ardèche frosts continue to delight our taste buds with an ice-cold galette des rois, an ice-cold galette as a trompe-l'oeil. Grilled almond ice cream, buttered puff pastry coated with milk chocolate, melting caramel and Dulcey chocolate. Honestly, it's an absolute success on the palate, a frosty but not sloppy delight, a real experience for which we can award the prize for the most original epiphanic creation.
With this frozen galette, you will be sure to make the most frosty choice, without skimping on product quality or taste. Go for it!
Price: 30€ for 6-8 people
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N°1: The galette from Friends
We have tasted galettes des rois since our childhood, from the most low-cost (Pasquier not to mention it, its legendary blue packaging, and its almond cream capable of knocking down the most talented plasterers in the construction industry) to more luxurious, when you had the chance, in another life (eat falafel, they tell you!).
But believe us, there are few pastry chefs who have managed to reach the level of the organic, gluten-free king cake made with rice and buckwheat flour from Copains. They offer a classic version, and a pistachio version.
A word of advice: opt for the classic, with hazelnut frangipane if I'm not mistaken, and simply enjoy this nut paste delicately coiled in a subtle recipe and – it's a feat for a galette des kings – perfectly digestible.
You know our requirement in terms of healthy, simple and tasty food, and on all these levels, without fuss, this galette wins the crown hands down. We tell you no more: just test it! And happy epiphany of course!
Edit 2025: After the classic galette and the pistachio galette, a new addition has arrived this year, the chocolate galette, and the result is absolutely incredible, to be tested urgently.
Price: we paid €37 for a galette for 6 people, but it was worth it.
Variations: pistachio, but we prefer the classic (or the chocolate one, discovered recently, a pure marvel)
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Bonus: we would like to test…
Obviously, this ranking includes galettes that we have already had the opportunity to test in recent years until today, but many other pastries do an excellent job, and there are bound to be equally good products to choose from. discover among them.
We can cite in particular, among those that we would like to test:
- Sweet Garden, the excellent pastry shop in northwestern Paris, which had already captivated us with its pistachio and orange blossom tart…
- Healthy Bakery, the bakery that is creating a buzz with its ancient wheat, which is much healthier than modern wheat (we had already discussed the subject of ancient wheat here).
- Chez Meunier, who does not rest on these laurels, with a limited edition bean cake signed Chanoir.
- Pastry P1, which made the buzz on the networks.
- The black sesame galette from Utopia Paris.
- Smoked hazelnut frangipane from Tapestry.
- Land and Monkeys, the famous brand of vegan bakeries with a traditional look but futuristic recipes. EDIT: tested, effective and approved.
- The cake of Royal Monceau, for when we have more money (for that, you know what to do, I'm not going to ramble on).
- Ours, not yours, catering.
- picard, since the monster buzz of their "anti-inflation pancakes" at the unbeatable price, and apparently, the criticism is almost unanimous. I'm told in the atrium that you have to try their raspberry queen galette. Plus, Picard never disappoints us in general, except when they try their hand at falafels and hummus, but hey, professional distortion.
- And finally the pancakes from Oh Yes! and Beautiful Desires for their low GI pastries – and we talked about glycemic index here – because you have to be a little careful with your figure all the same, but beware of the excess of maltitol and other fake sugars all the same, we will make a subject of this one these days if you are interested.
And speaking of low GI galette, we tried a galette at Libshop healthy and lowcarb with classic puff pastry made with flax flour, lupin flour, and filled with almond cream and pistachio cream. Without table sugar, without wheat flour and reduced in carbohydrates, the result is rather promising, so maybe next year to let you try it!
I hope you liked this ranking, and if you have any recommendations, don't hesitate to share your good addresses!
Happy New Year to all, and we meet for Candlemas. By the way, drop your com'z if you want us to make a top of the best crepes in Paris, because we know a lot of them too... much to the chagrin of our abs, but don't panic, there will always be the Lebanese Tabbouleh and the White Shark from Libshop to make a tad reappear by mid-June!
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