A biscuiterie (and a recipe) you didn't know you needed

Stop by Galizé Biscuiterie — a specialty shop for travel cakes — when you're in Paris, and try these java mini mads at home until you can get there.

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Before Caroline Le Touzé opened Galizé Biscuiterie, had you asked me if Paris was missing a particular kind of pastry shop, I’d have quickly said, no! In addition to all the patisseries and boulangeries that fill their cases with everything from whipped cream cakes and tarts to pointy-tipped baguettes, the city’s got specialty boutiques. There are shops that showcase macarons and shops that have chosen choux as their stars. Some that spotlight cookies and others that devote themselves to donuts. You can find babkas and cruffins and New York rolls (copies of those created at Lafayette). Chocolate shops are abundant — thank goodness. Scoop shops are as common as newsstand kiosks. And you can find a croissant on every corner. The pastry landscape looked complete to me. Then along came Galizé to prove me wrong.

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It turns out that Paris needed a shop for travel cakes, those plain gâteaux de voyage that you can pack and bring to friends, take to a picnic, stow in the galley of a …