Tarte tropézienne, also known as "la tarte de Saint-Tropez", is a dessert pastry consisting of a halved brioche filled with a mix of two creams, thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) and buttercream,[1] and topped with pearl sugar.

[2][3] It was created in 1955 by Polish confectioner Alexandre Micka, a pâtisserie owner in Saint-Tropez,[3] where he moved in 1945 just after the war.

[4] A few years later, actress Brigitte Bardot developed a taste for the pastries while she was in Saint-Tropez filming And God Created Woman.

[6] Micka's original shop, La Tarte Tropézienne, still exists.

It is not known whether this cake was baked in Bohemia earlier than in France.