It takes three days for Cédric Grolet to make Le Citron, his trademark dessert that looks just like a real lemon. But on Instagram, the French pastry chef’s eight million followers can watch him whip up the trompe l’oeil edible masterpiece in less than a minute.
As pastry sous-chef at Le Meurice, in Paris, Grolet became known for defying expectations of what a dessert could be, whether a Rubik’s Cube made of tiny cakes or a lifelike apple filled with apple-juice jelly. Grolet’s fruit creations inspired his first cookbook, Fruit: The Art of Pastry, and today he operates three pâtisseries, two in Paris and one in London, with a fourth, in Singapore, opening this fall.
