Product Reviews

Sucre, A Sweet Boutique {Giveaway!}

May 3, 2013

Imagine coming home after a long day at work and finding a package on your doorstep that you weren’t expecting for a few weeks. And it’s Friday! That was me a week ago today. A fairly decent-sized box waiting patiently for me to get home. Snuggled inside a cooler-type setup was this super cute striped box with a sweet note from Sucre. Sucre is a sweet boutique with two locations in Louisiana. I’ve never been and sure do wish I lived closer. Checking out their web site, they’ve got pretty amazing desserts like macarons, chocolates, marshamallows, chocolate-covered macarons. Um, how quick can I get to New Orleans? Lucky for me, the nice folks at Sucre sent me their 15-Piece Signature Collection Macaron to try.

Sucre Box

So, how’s it taste?

I really had good intentions of saving a few of these and sharing them with my coworkers that following Monday. Yeah, that didn’t happen. (Sorry if you’re reading this guys!) I spent the entire weekend sampling and snacking my way through each delicious bite…all by myself. Hey, I’m an only child. I don’t comprehend sharing very well.

Sucre Signature Macaron Collection

Can you blame me? The box is pretty, but look at those macarons. They are almost too pretty to eat…almost. Bite-sized works of art and they taste even better. Check out the flavors: chocolate, hazelnut, almond, pistachio, bananas foster, strawberry, pecan, and salted caramel. Hello!

Sucre Bananas Foster Macaron

I had so much fun tasting these beauties. The standouts for me were chocolate (of course!), pecan, and bananas foster. I don’t normally like anything banana, except real bananas, but this one was spot on. I could taste the caramelized bananas. I don’t know how they get that into a macaron. The pecan tasted just like pecan pie. This southern girl was impressed with that one. You can’t go wrong with chocolate in my book and this one was perfect for this chocoholic. My only complaint? There was only one of the chocolate!

Sucre Macarons

Now here’s where I’m learning about sharing. Not only did I get to indulge in a box of macarons, but one lucky reader will, too! My friends at Sucre were kind enough to offer a 15-piece Signature Macaron Collection for one of you!

Mandatory: Visit Sucre’s web site and leave a comment here on this blog telling me what sweet treat makes your mouth water! (Giveaway open to contiguous U.S. residents only.)

Optional entry: For one additional entry, tweet the following: “Win a box of @SucreNewOrleans signature macarons from @SoHowsItTaste! Enter here: http://bit.ly/sucremac” and leave a separate comment that you tweeted.

Contest ends on Friday, May 10th at 5 p.m. central. Please make sure you enter a valid email address as an alternate winner will be chosen if I don’t hear from you within 48 hours. Good luck!

Disclaimer: I was sent the 15-piece signature macaron collection for review. I was not compensated for this post. All opinions are solely my own, as always.

Congrats to Sharon on comment #35!
You’ve won your own box of Sucre macarons!
Winner chosen using random.org.

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  • Heather May 3, 2013 at 8:39 am

    Can you believe I’ve never had a macaroon??? Would love to win! I think the caramel and brown butter chocolates sound amazing!

  • Jim Kottke May 3, 2013 at 9:11 am

    It would have to be the sucre festival bark!

  • Chao Thao May 3, 2013 at 9:11 am

    I love chocolate so the Fraise Chocolate Collection makes me drool!

  • Darcy May 3, 2013 at 9:30 am

    I only just recently had my very first macaroni and I am obsessed! Those white chocolate lavender macarons look positively intriguing

  • Sarah May 3, 2013 at 9:31 am

    Can’t believe I have never tasted a macaroon! I can wait to indulge.

  • anne May 3, 2013 at 9:52 am

    Oh my! Macaroons are my FAVORITE and they are so hard to find where I live — I have to drive 30 min. to another city to find a bakery that makes them well. It would, seriously, make my week to have a box of these macaroons appear on my doorstep.

  • Darcy May 3, 2013 at 10:07 am

    *macarons

    Also I tweeted @souffledivision

  • Donna May 3, 2013 at 10:11 am

    Just looked at the site, everything they have looks so delicious, would love to try some macaroons.

  • Brecca Theele May 3, 2013 at 10:19 am

    Yum!! I love macarons, but I would take a box of their strawberry chocolates in a heartbeat!

  • Brecca Theele May 3, 2013 at 10:20 am

    twitter tweeted 🙂

  • Wendy May 3, 2013 at 10:22 am

    Love Macarons! The salted caramel ones look amazing!

  • Sonya May 3, 2013 at 10:58 am

    OMG!!!! The White Chcocolate Lavendar (hint. hint.) or The Luscious Lousianna Strawberry so I can have my own strawberry festival at home!

  • Sonya May 3, 2013 at 11:00 am

    Just tweeted!

  • Lesley Eats May 3, 2013 at 11:55 am

    Wow, everything looks great, but the fraise collection? Yes, please. Chocolate + strawberries = happy Lesley!

  • Lesley Eats May 3, 2013 at 11:56 am

    I tweeted! @lesleyeats

  • Jordyn May 3, 2013 at 12:20 pm

    The strawberry macaroons look amazing!

  • Maneesha Pradhan May 3, 2013 at 12:41 pm

    I love macarons. These look heavenly.

  • Kelly S May 3, 2013 at 12:44 pm

    I’ve only had a macaron once and it was SO GOOD! I have got to try that Bananas Foster flavor!!

  • Renee May 3, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    Guess I’m an oddball here, but my one treat would be the Sucre Dark from the dark choc lover’s collection.

  • Jaunnette May 3, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    I tweeted! @JJ0481

  • Jaunnette May 3, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    There’s… no picking. The lavender ones are SOOO pretty. But those chocolate covered ones…. oooh…. I’ve never even HAD a macaron so it’s not like I have a basis for comparison!

  • Karen Z May 3, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    My sweet treat is definately chocolate!! Whenever I need something sweet I go for the chocolate! So the chocolate covered macarons really caught my eye!;)

  • rachel May 3, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    Chocolate!! Oh yum 🙂

  • Corisa May 3, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    I’d love to try the salted caramel macaroon!

  • Margot C May 4, 2013 at 1:25 am

    A hard question because all of their goods look divine; I’m gonna have to go with the Chocolate Covered Macarons

  • Margot C May 4, 2013 at 1:27 am

    A tweet!: https://twitter.com/AnnaZed/status/330569133429256193

    and thanks so much for posting this

  • KaySue May 4, 2013 at 7:06 am

    The chocolate covered macarons look good.

  • Laura May 4, 2013 at 9:59 am

    Those fraise chocolates with the strawberry puree. Sooooo good sounding. Yum!

  • Michelle May 4, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    The chocolate with strawberry looks amazing.

  • Kimi May 4, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    The caramel ganache sound delicious

  • Kimi May 4, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    I tweeted

  • danielle May 4, 2013 at 2:52 pm

    The salted caramel collection looks too good!

  • Maria May 4, 2013 at 4:06 pm

    They all look good, but I would love to try the Over the Rainbow Collection of macarons.

  • sharonjo May 5, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    I’ve never tried macarons, either eating them or baking them. I think it’s high time I give them a try. Maybe (hopefully!) I’ll win this giveaway and have a whole box to sample. Thanks so much for the chance.

    I think the Salted Caramel macaron sounds totally scrumptious!

  • sharonjo May 5, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    Tweet: https://twitter.com/sharonjo2/status/331249374426456064

  • Bethany May 6, 2013 at 12:33 am

    I am a NUT for variety packs because I’m so indecisive! I would love one of their signature macaron collections, because these are the ones that everyone else loves and that must mean they’re fantastic!

  • Alex May 6, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    I tweeted! From @loveaafair 🙂

  • Alex May 6, 2013 at 12:04 pm

    The chocolate covered macarons look divine!!

  • Erin H May 6, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    The White Chocolate Lavender Macarons look amazing!

  • Hettar7 May 6, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    I’d love to try the macarons because i’ve never had them before. But the olive oil dark chocolate combo and the white chocolate strawberry amaretti chocolate bar AND the drinking chocolate also sound divine.

    I didn’t need to add another site to my “buy food from here list” but I just did. lol

  • Syeda Imam May 7, 2013 at 1:23 pm

    I’ve never tasted a macaroon before. Can’t wait to taste them if I win!

  • Ashley C May 7, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    The caramel and brown butter collection sounds amazing!

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  • Cara C May 7, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    I’ve never had a macaroon but these look amazing. Chocolate is always good too!

  • Elsa May 8, 2013 at 12:04 am

    I can’t imagine anything better than the macaron sampler. Salted caramel? Pistachio? Hazelnut? Ooooh.

  • nadya kotik May 8, 2013 at 11:09 am

    I twitted https://twitter.com/nadya55k/status/332164613355479040

  • nadya kotik May 8, 2013 at 11:12 am

    Dark Chocolate Lovers Collection make my mouth water!

  • Julia @cookandburn May 8, 2013 at 8:23 pm

    It has to be the Coconut and Toasted Almond Chocolate Bars–love that combination.
    I’ve only had a macaron once and it was disappointing so I would love to try a great one.

  • Nicole May 9, 2013 at 9:50 am

    The chocolate covered macarons!

  • Lisa P May 9, 2013 at 1:03 pm

    The New Orleans Macaroon Collection sounds divine! Thanks for the giveaway!