Posts Tagged ‘almond’

Fall Small Sweets dessert buffet by Thea

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Fall Small Sweets dessert buffet by Thea

Some lucky guests to a private party in Tsawwassen this weekend were treated to a small sweets Fall Dessert Buffet created by Thea!

These are the delicious goodies they were able to sample, hand-created by Thea herself:
Dark Chocolate dipped Strawberries
drizzled with white chocolate
Raspberry Truffle Tartlet
Sweet tart shells filled with dark chocolate ganache and topped with fresh [...]

Jackie Pearson’s Wedding Cake

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Jackie Pearson's Wedding Cake

Base tier is mocha almond, middle tier is lemonberry, top tier is chocolate chiffon.

Josephine and Frank (photos by C.J. Scott)

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Josephine and Frank (photos by C.J. Scott)

Josephine & Frank booked Victoria photographer C.J. Scott well over a year before their wedding.   They knew they could trust her with their most important day – so you know we were pleased when C.J. forwarded these lovely photos to us!

Opera Cake

Posted by Thea Wilgress
Opera Cake

I created this  for the fine dining room at the Club.  Opera cake (gateau l’Opera) is a very traditional Parisian cake, named for the Opéra national de Paris, and been a known pastry since sometime in the late 1700’s, when chocolate was introduced to France.
Almond cake soaked with espresso syrup, layered with coffee butter cream [...]

Apricot Muscat Miroir

Posted by Thea Wilgress
Apricot Muscat Miroir

This is a lovely dessert I recently served – an almond cake with apricot bavarian cream and Italian muscat jelly.  Pictured here with with a Raspberry Financier and a Caramel & Chocolate Mousse tart.

Raspberry Financier Cake and Almond Coconut Macaroons

Posted by Thea Wilgress
Raspberry Financier Cake and Almond Coconut Macaroons

Just whipped these up – Raspberry Financier Cake with vanilla Bavarian cream, fresh raspberries, and raspberry paper, and some Almond Coconut macaroons.  Yum!

4 Tarts and a Mousse Cake

Posted by Thea Wilgress
4 Tarts and a Mousse Cake

Today I created 5 desserts for the Club’s regular dessert tray – this is how they looked in the kitchen, before they were plated. This is my first try at photoing pastries in a commercial kitchen under bad lighting – sorry about the quality, I am sure a little practice will improve my photos!
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