{"id":26976,"date":"2025-06-30T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26976\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:21:10","slug":"tasting-the-best-trompe-loeil-fruit-desserts-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26976\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasting the best Trompe-l&#8217;\u0153il fruit desserts in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul data-element=\"action-bar-menu\" class=\"flex gap-2 list-none \">\n<li data-element=\"action-bar-share\" class=\"flex  relative \">\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trompe-l\u2019\u0153il desserts, the fruit desserts often molded and decorated to mimic mango, pistachio and an array of other produce and nuts, look like works of art. French pastry chef C\u00e9dric Grolet is credited with starting the trend, and the desserts are gaining in popularity in Los Angeles, with a handful of shops offering their take on the beautiful confections. We taste tested more than a dozen. Here are our favorites.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Jenn Harris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/jenn-harris\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751282469_707_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Jenn Harris is a columnist and critic for the Food section of the Los Angeles Times. She was a finalist for the 2025 James Beard Award for criticism, and holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in literary journalism from UC Irvine and a master\u2019s in journalism from USC. Follow her @Jenn_Harris_.<\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Yadira Flores\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/yadira-flores\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751282470_321_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Yadira Flores is a video editor for the Los Angeles Times who joined the newsroom through Metpro in November 2017. Flores graduated with a bachelor of science in filmmaking and has edited online content for Amazon, the American Cinema Editors, FilmLight, Emmy Primecuts and Moviola. She hails from El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Mark E. Potts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mark-potts\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751282470_347_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master\u2019s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share via Close extra sharing options Trompe-l\u2019\u0153il desserts, the fruit desserts often molded and decorated to mimic mango,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[23520,23513,1582,276,23512,23519,23516,23515,6276,2961,23521,224,2444,5337,23517,23514,16361,159,23511,23518],"class_list":{"0":"post-26976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-american-cinema-editors","9":"tag-bachelor","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-degree","13":"tag-emmy-primecuts","14":"tag-good-trompe-loeil-fruit-dessert","15":"tag-journalism","16":"tag-l-a","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-literary-journalism","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-mark-e-potts-june","23":"tag-master","24":"tag-november","25":"tag-science","26":"tag-video-editor","27":"tag-yadira-flores"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114772055876734258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}