Bored of macaroons? Totally over cupcakes? Looking for another sweet and cute way to over-indulge? Popelini, a recent addition to the hippidy-hip Northern Marais neighbourhood, might just have the answer.

Selling nothing but bite-size choux à la crème (which sounds far more elegant than its English translation of cream puff), Popelini provides Paris with an alternative way to eat cake, and features flavours ranging from traditional vanilla and cafe to mouthgasmic salted caramel to romantic rose to raspberry.

But before you start to think this all sounds gimmicky, know that choux à la crème are a traditional part of French pastry making. Invented in Italy in 1540 by pastry chef Popelini (hence the name of the shop), these cream-filled morsels make up the traditional French wedding cake and are also essentially the same as the good old eclair—just rounder, smaller, and cuter. Here, however, cream puffs are brought up to date, lined up like little calorific jewels in the counter of the minimal boutique, all perfectly formed and topped with a colourful slick of icing, tempting you to indulge in the wide range of flavours.